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Перевод: booster
[существительное] горячий сторонник; ракета-носитель ; рекламщик ; зазывала ; побудитель ; усилитель ; бустер ; помощник ; стартовый двигатель
Тезаурус:
- A NEW vaccine against the infectious liver disease Hepatitis A, "Havrix", has this week been introduced in the UK: a course of two injections in the arm followed by a booster which could give up to 10 years' immunity.
- A solid-propellant booster rocket, with a thrust of some 3200 kg, blasts the missile through the cover over the front of the launch tube.
- A hydraulic ram elevates the section of the launcher vehicle housing the four missiles to an angle of 450; the caps over the rear ends of the launch tubes fold down, so that the exhaust gases from the booster rockets can pass through; and the crew can then press the fire button.
- But in the 1980s we are in a new recession; morale is getting low, and soon the government will seriously turn to the arts as a "booster".
- The first of these Tracking and Data Relay Satellites entered orbit on board a space shuttle earlier this week, but later ran into trouble when its second booster failed.
- Ward doesn't admit it, but faced with declining sales and lay-offs at Crewe the Continental R is the confidence booster the company needs.
- The nine monkeys received a series of three vaccine injections as well as a booster injection one year later.
- According to Soviet sources, a catalogue of 600 scientific and technical innovations from the space shuttle Buran and the giant rocket booster Energiya have been prepared for exploitation worldwide.
- The debuting vocalist therefore spent the entire set stooping to sing through a microphone a foot shorter than his requirement, hardly a sure-fire confidence booster.
- This pressure is maintained by means of water towers and gravity, or by booster pumping stations.
- The flights that circle Kabul every quarter of an hour are a morale booster for the hard-pressed population.
- Thirteen and a half seconds after ignition, the booster motor falls away, and half a second later the jet engine starts propelling the missile for the rest of its flight.
- The move is a morale booster for Forte, two weeks before its results, which are expected to show a profits plunge to about 70 million.
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