subsonic

IPA: sˈʌbsˈɑnɪk

noun

  • an aircraft whose maximum speed is less than the speed of sound

adjective

  • (of a sound, scientific) having a frequency too low to be audible
  • (of a sound, literary) very quiet, almost inaudible
  • (of a speed) (aviation) less than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure)
  • (fluid mechanics, of a flow) with a Mach number such that 0.3 < Ma < 0.8 (approximately - the exact limits vary between sources)
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Examples of "subsonic" in Sentences

  • Subsonic and transonic behavior.
  • Subsonic and transonic wind tunnel.
  • Secondly the flow never turns subsonic.
  • Sea skimmer with subsonic terminal speed.
  • It is a special case of Subsonic aerodynamics.
  • The subsonic stage includes a rotor and a stator.
  • This in turn reduces the subsonic efficiency of it.
  • As the gas enters a nozzle, it is traveling at subsonic velocities.
  • Examples are the entrencher, the tectonic grenade, and the subsonic grenade.
  • At subsonic speeds, the airflow constricts the exhaust to a convergent shape.
  • I am adding to 99explorer's good advice and confirming the Winchester Ranger 147 gr. subsonic.
  • There are standard pressure loads, so-called "subsonic" loads, and ultra fast, high pressure, +P and +P+ loads.
  • Boeing is struggling right now to develop a new subsonic airliner, something they've been doing for nearly a century.
  • (I can't give an actual number as I have not kept track, but I was just dying for a place to use the word "subsonic" somewhere in this column.
  • There are others however, that are on a par with the Winchester Ranger 147-grain subsonic, and these are the CCI Speer Gold Dot and the Federal HST.
  • Then it had to remain controllable and stable at subsonic, transonic, and supersonic speeds up to Mach 4 by mid-1942, ten years after development had started.
  • The lower operational ceiling of the F-35 around 40,000 feet and its subsonic cruising speed means it will be at much higher risk in attempting to penetrate such heavily defended airspace.
  • As the 22-year-old Blake croons "Limit to Your Love," a cover of Canadian indie chanteuse Feist, in comes an almost subsonic rumble - the kind you don't hear in your headphones so much as feel in your kidneys.

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