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Jet Engine
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1. Broadly, and engine that
ejects a jet or
stream of gas or fluid, obtaining all or most of its thrust by reaction to the
ejection. See reaction engine.
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2. Specifically, an aircraft engine that derives all or most of its thrust
by reaction to its ejection of combustion products (or heated air) in a jet
and that obtains oxygen from the atmosphere for the combustion of its fuel (or
outside air for heating, as in the case of the nuclear jet engine),
distinguished in this sense from a rocket
engine. A jet engine of this kind may have a compressor,
commonly turbine-driven, to take in and compress air (turbojet), or it may be
compressorless, taking in and compressing air by other means ( pulsejet, ramjet). [[/a>|/a>
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References
This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
