MEANING
Moving faster than sound in the surrounding medium, or relating to such motion.
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- supersonic flight
- supersonic shock
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The aircraft entered supersonic flight.
A supersonic shock traveled through the gas.
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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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