high velocity jet

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• High explosive anti-tank warhead — High explosive anti tank (HEAT) rounds are made of an explosive shaped charge that uses the Neumann effect (a development of the Munroe effect) to create a very high velocity jet of metal in a state of superplasticity that can punch through solid …   Wikipedia

• jet engine — an engine, as an aircraft engine, that produces forward motion by the rearward exhaust of a jet of fluid or heated air and gases. Also called jet, jet motor. [1940 45] * * * Any of a class of internal combustion engines that propel aircraft by… …   Universalium

• jet propulsion — /dʒɛt prəˈpʌlʃən/ (say jet pruh pulshuhn) noun a method of producing a propelling force upon an air or water craft through the reaction of a high velocity jet, usually of heated gases, discharged towards the rear. Also, reaction propulsion …  

• Jet ventilation — is a special type of mechanical ventilation for surgical operations in the airway. Jet ventilation (JV) is characterized by the insufflation of gas portions with high velocity into the airway. The latter has to be open to the atmosphere in order… …   Wikipedia

• jet blast — Jet engine exhaust. The hot, high velocity gases coming out of jet engine exhaust …   Aviation dictionary

• jet stream — ☆ jet stream n. 1. any of several bands of high velocity winds moving from west to east around the earth at altitudes from c. 12 to 16 km ( c. 8 to 10 mi) 2. the stream of exhaust from any reaction engine: also jetstream n …   English World dictionary

• Jet engine — For a general overview of aircraft engines, see Aircraft engine. A Pratt Whitney F100 turbofan engine for the …   Wikipedia

• jet — A region of very high blood velocity just downstream of a vessel stenosis. * * * Joint Engineering Team; junctional ectopic tachycardia * * * (jet) [L. iacere to throw] 1. a stream of fluid projected at high velocity under pressure, or the device …   Medical dictionary

• jet pump — i. A form of a fluid pump in an aircraft fuel system that produces a low pressure by moving fuel at a high velocity through a venturi. A jet pump helps remove vapors from fuel before it enters a fuel control unit. Some of the fuel from the main… …   Aviation dictionary

• jet stream — A narrow band of high velocity wind in the upper troposphere or in the stratosphere. These westerly air currents in the form of a flattened, narrow core may be thousands of miles in length and a hundred or more miles in width and have one or more …   Aviation dictionary

• jet — i. An aircraft powered by one or more gas turbine engines. ii. A gas turbine engine may be referred to as a jet engine. iii. A strong, well defined stream of fluid either issuing from an orifice or moving in a contracted duct, such as the jet of… …   Aviation dictionary