Astrogate
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To astronavigate; to control and guide a spacecraft. ambitransitive
"Sure, Mike was used to having many loads in trajectory at once—but had never had to astrogate more than one at a time. Now he had hundreds and had promised to deliver twenty-nine of them simultaneously to the exact second at twenty-nine pinpointed targets."
- 2 navigate in space wordnet
- 3 guide in interplanetary travel wordnet
Example
More examples"Sure, Mike was used to having many loads in trajectory at once—but had never had to astrogate more than one at a time. Now he had hundreds and had promised to deliver twenty-nine of them simultaneously to the exact second at twenty-nine pinpointed targets."
Etymology
Blend of astro- + navigate.
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