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An air-breathing jet engine that compresses incoming air through its forward motion rather than a mechanical compressor.
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- ramjet engine
- ramjet propulsion
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The ramjet could not start from a standstill without another means of acceleration.
Ramjet propulsion carried the craft through the upper atmosphere.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular ramjet; plural ramjets. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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