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screaming

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screaming [′skrēm·iŋ]
(aerospace engineering)
A form of combustion instability, especially in a liquid-propellant rocket engine, of relatively high frequency, characterized by a high-pitched noise.
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She said she was going to the wise woman; her boy had screaming fits, so she was taking him to be doctored.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Doors were opened and shut and there were hurrying feet in the corridors and some one was crying and screaming at the same time, screaming and crying in a horrible way.
The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances Hodgson View in context
slowly it floats more and more away, the water round it torn and splashed by the insatiate sharks, and the air above vexed with rapacious flights of screaming fowls, whose beaks are like so many insulting poniards in the whale.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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