skyhook

IPA: skˈaɪhʊk

A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
An overhead winch.
A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
(astronautics) A proposed momentum-exchange tether for launching payloads into low Earth orbit by hooking them to the end of a cable that reaches down from an orbiting station into the upper atmosphere.
(slang) A CB radio antenna.
(tennis) A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
(climbing) A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
(board sports) A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.

Examples of "skyhook" in Sentences

Also, it uses skyhook, which is fairly accurate as far as finding your location
When Dennett first introduces the term skyhook in this analogy he gives us the dictionary definition
The meaning of the term skyhook definitely evolved in its new context, as in the frog example that Dennett gave.
By placing an intangible roadmap upon our perceivable world the skyhook is the very definition of foundationalism.
Its just about eaten through the base of the tether, so luna this skyhook is about to become a spaceship until it eats that too …
A crane represents a theory built of our own world's rules and set in a foundation of the real while a skyhook is a by-definition impossible floating hook.
We debated this point in the discussions on Thursday, and doubtless will continue to do so, but even addressing this argument shows that the term skyhook has moved far past its original meaning in.
On the following page he instructs his readers "Let us understand that a skyhook is a" mind-first "force or power or process, an exception to the principle that all design, and apparent design, is ultimately the result of mindless, motiveless mechanicity," (Dennett 76).