jet engine

English

Noun

jet engine (plural jet engines)

1. An engine that obtains thrust by taking in air at the front, using it to burn fuel, then ejecting the hot combustion products at the rear through a propulsive nozzle.
2. Any engine propelled by expelling a high speed fluid jet (jet propulsion), such as a rocket, turbojet, turbofan, ramjet, etc.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• fanjet
• jet turbine
• pulsejet
• ramjet
• scramjet
• turbojet

Related terms

Related terms

• duct engine
• gas turbine
• jet propulsion
• pulse detonation engine
• turbofan
• turboprop
• turboshaft

Translations

engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
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• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: motor a reacció m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 噴氣發動機／喷气发动机 (zh) (pēnqì fādòngjī)

• Czech: reaktivní motor m, tryskový motor m
• Danish: jetmotor c, flymotor
• Dutch: straalmotor (nl) m
• Esperanto: jetmotoro
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: suihkumoottori (fi)
• French: moteur à réaction (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Strahltriebwerk (de) n, Düsentriebwerk (de) n
• Greek: αεριοστροβιλωθητήρας (el) m (aeriostrovilothitíras)
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• Hungarian: sugárhajtómű (hu)
• Interlingua: motor a jecto
• Italian: motore a reazione (it) m
• Japanese: ジェットエンジン (jettoenjin)
• Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីន​យន្តហោះ (maasɨn-yŭən hɑh)
• Korean: 제트 엔진 (jeteu enjin)
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• Macedonian: млазен погон m (mlazen pogon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jetmotor (no) m

  Nynorsk: jetmotor m

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: silnik odrzutowy m
• Portuguese: motor a jato m
• Russian: реакти́вный дви́гатель (ru) m (reaktívnyj dvígatelʹ)
• Spanish: motor de reacción m
• Swedish: jetmotor (sv) c, reamotor (sv) c
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See also

• piston engine
• rocket engine
• rotary engine