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HEAT BARRIER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does heat barrier mean?

• HEAT BARRIER (noun)
The noun HEAT BARRIER has 1 sense:

1. a limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating

Familiarity information: HEAT BARRIER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HEAT BARRIER (noun)

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Meaning:

A limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

heat barrier; thermal barrier

Hypernyms ("heat barrier" is a kind of...):

bound; boundary; limit (the greatest possible degree of something)

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