transonic
IPA: trænsˈɑnɪk
adjective
- Just below, or just above, the speed of sound (0.8 < Ma < 1.2 approximately).
- Passing from subsonic to supersonic, or vice versa.
- Travelling through a fluid (commonly air) at a speed where regions of supersonic and subsonic flow coexist simultaneously over different portions of the surface of the moving object in question.
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Examples of "transonic" in Sentences
- Subsonic and transonic behavior.
- Subsonic and transonic wind tunnel.
- Severe instability can occur at transonic speeds.
- The affects only last within the transonic regime.
- Transonic is the most challenging regime to describe.
- The 'fix' is similar to that of transonic wing design.
- They are in fact different aspects of transonic flight.
- The aerodynamics between the tank and tower at transonic.
- It calculates the wave drag on a transonic or supersonic aircraft.
- The LAS can only get on the order of hundreds of feet away from Ares during the transonic region.
- The term "sound barrier" was coined for when an aircraft attempted to move from transonic to supersonic speed.
- The 'transonic' stage of a 7mm Weatherby is at about 1400 yards, a 30-06 at about 1200 yards, and my old slowpoke .35 Whelen is at 700 yards.
- Such design is very complicated since you fly through all possible flow regimes: From hypersonics down to supersonic, transonic and subsonic.
- If bullets become unstable when they travel through the "transonic" stage, then why do 22 long rifle are still flying true even at 600 yards!!!
- Bullets become unstable when they travel through the "transonic" stage (where the bullet goes from being supersonic to subsonic) the reason for this as best as I understand is due to the change in the way the air flows over the grooves in the bullet that the rifling engraves in its surface.