MEANING
Traveling at or relating to speeds conventionally around Mach five or higher.
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- hypersonic vehicle
- hypersonic flow
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The hypersonic vehicle crossed the test range.
Engineers modeled hypersonic flow around the nose.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a technical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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