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Ramjet

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Noun
  1. 1
    A jet engine in which forward motion forces air into an inlet, compressing it (as opposed to having a pump type device compressing the air for combustion with fuel), and where combustion is subsonic.
  2. 2
    a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed wordnet

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From ram + jet.

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