Associations to the word «Ramjet»

Wiktionary

RAMJET, noun. (aviation) A jet engine in which forward motion forces air into an inlet, compressing it (as opposed to having a pump type device compressing the air for combustion with fuel), and where combustion is subsonic.

Dictionary definition

RAMJET, noun. A simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope