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launch

To cause a program to load and run. Contrast with exit. See never say.

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launch

1. a motor driven boat used chiefly as a transport boat

2. the largest of the boats of a man-of-war

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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.