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A protective barrier that limits heat reaching an object, especially during atmospheric entry.
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- ablative heatshield
- damaged heatshield
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The damaged heatshield glowed during descent.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular heatshield; plural heatshields. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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