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launch
To cause a program to load and run. Contrast with exit. See never say.
launch
1. a motor driven boat used chiefly as a transport boat
2. the largest of the boats of a man-of-war
launch [lȯnch]
(aerospace engineering)
To send off a rocket vehicle under its own rocket power, as in the case of guided aircraft rockets, artillery rockets, and space vehicles.
To send off a missile or aircraft by means of a catapult or by means of inertial force, as in the release of a bomb from a flying aircraft.
To give a space probe an added boost for flight into space just before separation from its launch vehicle.
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I knew that he looked with disapproval upon my plan to visit England, and I did not know but what at his first opportunity, he might desert us, taking the launch with him, and attempt to return to Pan-America.
The Lost Continent by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
A second inscription above the door informed us that a steam launch was kept,--a statement which was confirmed by a great pile of coke upon the jetty.
Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
I never see a steam launch but I feel I should like to lure it to a lonely part of the river, and there, in the silence and the solitude, strangle it.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
 
 
 
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