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launchTo cause a program to load and run. Contrast with exit. 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. 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. |
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