pitchover

pitchover

[′pich‚ō·vər]
(aerospace engineering)
The programmed turn from the vertical that a rocket under power takes as it describes an arc and points in a direction other than vertical.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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