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Supersonic Common

Origin: Latin prefix super-

Supersonic has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

An aircraft that can travel at the speed of sound.

Adjective
1

(of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air)

"a supersonic bomber flies so fast that it must release its bombs while the target is still over the horizon"

2

having frequencies above those of audible sound

3

greater than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure)

Related Terms
Antonyms
transonic subsonic
Rhyming Words
nic danic zanic kinic sinic panic vinic yonic eonic tunic punic xenic ionic sonic monic manic nonic cynic conic genic
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