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Boost
1. Additional power, pressure, or force supplied by a booster, as,
hydraulic boost, or extra propulsion given a flying vehicle during lift-off,
climb, or other part of its flight as with a booster engine.
2. Boost
pressure.
3. To supercharge.
4. To launch or to
push along during a portion of flight, as to boost a ramjet to flight speed
by means of a rocket, or a rocket boosted to altitude with another rocket
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References
This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
