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Ion engine

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  1. 1
    a type of spacecraft propulsion, whereby electric fields accelerate ions out the exhaust to provide motive force
  2. 2
    a type of reaction-propulsion engine to propel rockets in space; a stream of positive ions is accelerated to a high velocity by an electric field wordnet

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