Supersonic
adjective
Faster than the speed of sound.
The jet flew at supersonic speed.
Often appears as...
- supersonic speed
- supersonic jet
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Regarding, related to or using the speed that is faster than the speed of sound.
The team is working on a new supersonic transport system.
Often appears as...
- supersonic aircraft
- supersonic transport
adjective
Faster than the speed of sound.
The jet flew at supersonic speed.
Often appears as...
- supersonic speed
- supersonic jet
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Regarding, related to or using the speed that is faster than the speed of sound.
The team is working on a new supersonic transport system.
Often appears as...
- supersonic aircraft
- supersonic transport
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Speed Context
Used to describe objects moving faster than sound, usually in aerospace and military contexts.
The supersonic missile was launched during the test.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Term
A technical term often found in science, engineering, and aviation.
Supersonic aerodynamics are critical for a stealth fighter's design.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Sonic Speed
Despite 'sonic' in the name, it means faster than sound, not simply the speed of sound.
Breaking the sound barrier means achieving supersonic speed.
Pro Tip 1/3Speed Context
Used to describe objects moving faster than sound, usually in aerospace and military contexts.
The supersonic missile was launched during the test.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Term
A technical term often found in science, engineering, and aviation.
Supersonic aerodynamics are critical for a stealth fighter's design.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Sonic Speed
Despite 'sonic' in the name, it means faster than sound, not simply the speed of sound.
Breaking the sound barrier means achieving supersonic speed.
Pro Tip 1/3Speed Context
Used to describe objects moving faster than sound, usually in aerospace and military contexts.
The supersonic missile was launched during the test.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Term
A technical term often found in science, engineering, and aviation.
Supersonic aerodynamics are critical for a stealth fighter's design.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Sonic Speed
Despite 'sonic' in the name, it means faster than sound, not simply the speed of sound.
Breaking the sound barrier means achieving supersonic speed.
Never forget "Supersonic"
Humans forget easily. That's why you should download WordUp: Smart reminders, word games, AI practice, and much more!
Video examples
The Curious Life of a...
the friction as we come through literally burns a hole in the upper atmosphere. The heat shield in the front of our Rover gets to about the surface temperature of the Sun 1600 degrees centigrade. At this point we're going to start what I like to call reverse origami. We're going to pull up a parachute, this is a supersonic parachute and that's going to start changing our angle
Video examples
How to Touch Down on...
steer our way through the atmosphere this is the first for this expedition and that's where you see those rockets going off we're actually maneuvering in the atmosphere and then when we've slowed down to about Oh a little less than a thousand miles now we open up a parachute in our case the world's largest supersonic parachute we opened
Video examples
Watch the Total Solar...
which was a supersonic passenger airplane went twice the speed of sound chased an eclipse across Africa and they got over 70 minutes of totality minute and of course NASA just right now is actually chasing it what kind of plan it's called a WB 57 it's a old Air Force
Video examples
The sonic boom problem -...
Aircraft traveling at supersonic speed create a shock wave with a thunder-like noise known as a sonic boom, which can cause distress to people and animals below or even damage buildings. For this reason, scientists around the world have been looking at sonic booms,
Video examples
Why are airplanes slower...
is not sufficient to cover these costs. So while military aircraft conduct high speed flights over water and at high altitudes, supersonic commercial flights seemed like a brief and failed experiment. But recent advances may make them feasible again.
Video examples
The unforeseen...
as absurd and complex as it is. The first paradox is that we love speed, and we're thrilled by its intensity. But our prehistoric brains aren't really built for it, so we invent roller coasters and race cars and supersonic planes,
Video examples
To Mars and back, a...
this is Mars this is my favorite video of the surface of Mars actually the only video of surface of Mars taken by the Marti imager strapped to the world's largest extra s triol rover hanging underneath the largest supersonic
Video examples
The Science of Lightning...
Fahrenheit this extreme heat creates the booming thunderclap as excessive pressure within the lightning path expands at supersonic rates on return strokes in the u.s. lightning occurs most often in Florida it's hot moist
Video examples
Lightning Strikes PIPE...
Fahrenheit this extreme heat creates the booming thunderclap as excessive pressure within the lightning path expands at supersonic rates on return strokes in the u.s. lightning occurs most often
Video examples
Liquid Metal Tornadoes PIPE...
10 kilometers a year slow by our standards supersonic in geological terms
Video examples
The Curious Life of a...
the friction as we come through literally burns a hole in the upper atmosphere. The heat shield in the front of our Rover gets to about the surface temperature of the Sun 1600 degrees centigrade. At this point we're going to start what I like to call reverse origami. We're going to pull up a parachute, this is a supersonic parachute and that's going to start changing our angle
Video examples
How to Touch Down on...
steer our way through the atmosphere this is the first for this expedition and that's where you see those rockets going off we're actually maneuvering in the atmosphere and then when we've slowed down to about Oh a little less than a thousand miles now we open up a parachute in our case the world's largest supersonic parachute we opened
Video examples
Watch the Total Solar...
which was a supersonic passenger airplane went twice the speed of sound chased an eclipse across Africa and they got over 70 minutes of totality minute and of course NASA just right now is actually chasing it what kind of plan it's called a WB 57 it's a old Air Force
Video examples
The sonic boom problem -...
Aircraft traveling at supersonic speed create a shock wave with a thunder-like noise known as a sonic boom, which can cause distress to people and animals below or even damage buildings. For this reason, scientists around the world have been looking at sonic booms,
Video examples
Why are airplanes slower...
is not sufficient to cover these costs. So while military aircraft conduct high speed flights over water and at high altitudes, supersonic commercial flights seemed like a brief and failed experiment. But recent advances may make them feasible again.
Video examples
The unforeseen...
as absurd and complex as it is. The first paradox is that we love speed, and we're thrilled by its intensity. But our prehistoric brains aren't really built for it, so we invent roller coasters and race cars and supersonic planes,
Video examples
To Mars and back, a...
this is Mars this is my favorite video of the surface of Mars actually the only video of surface of Mars taken by the Marti imager strapped to the world's largest extra s triol rover hanging underneath the largest supersonic
Video examples
The Science of Lightning...
Fahrenheit this extreme heat creates the booming thunderclap as excessive pressure within the lightning path expands at supersonic rates on return strokes in the u.s. lightning occurs most often in Florida it's hot moist
Video examples
Lightning Strikes PIPE...
Fahrenheit this extreme heat creates the booming thunderclap as excessive pressure within the lightning path expands at supersonic rates on return strokes in the u.s. lightning occurs most often
Video examples
Liquid Metal Tornadoes PIPE...
10 kilometers a year slow by our standards supersonic in geological terms
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Leroy Chiao
American Astronaut
As astronauts know better than anyone else, risks, incidents, and mishaps are inevitable in the development of any high-performance vehicle. The emergence of supersonic flight during the 1940s and of the Century Series of fighters in the 1950s came with the loss of several test pilots. Still, it was a glorious time.
Quote examples
Susan Orlean
American Journalist
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.
Quote examples
Richard Smalley
American Scientist
After a few years of intensive research, we found a way to use a pulsed laser directed into a nozzle to vaporize any material, allowing for the first time the atoms of any element in the periodic table to be produced cold in a supersonic beam.
Quote examples
James Gleick
American Author
One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.
Quote examples
Elon Musk
South African Businessman
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
Quote examples
Chuck Yeager
American Aviator
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
Quote examples
Jonathan Bailey
English Actor
My toothbrush is analogue all the way. There's a supersonic Oral-B in the cabinet but I like an old-fashioned DIY to get a full clean. Firm bristles.
Quote examples
Carrie Preston
American Actress
Neutrogena Ultra Sheer sunscreen makes me feel like I'm getting supersonic protection because I am so, so pale and need all the help I can get!
Quote examples
James Stockdale
American Soldier
I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
Quote examples
Ozzy Osbourne
English Musician
I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
Quote examples
Leroy Chiao
American Astronaut
As astronauts know better than anyone else, risks, incidents, and mishaps are inevitable in the development of any high-performance vehicle. The emergence of supersonic flight during the 1940s and of the Century Series of fighters in the 1950s came with the loss of several test pilots. Still, it was a glorious time.
Quote examples
Susan Orlean
American Journalist
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.
Quote examples
Richard Smalley
American Scientist
After a few years of intensive research, we found a way to use a pulsed laser directed into a nozzle to vaporize any material, allowing for the first time the atoms of any element in the periodic table to be produced cold in a supersonic beam.
Quote examples
James Gleick
American Author
One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.
Quote examples
Elon Musk
South African Businessman
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
Quote examples
Chuck Yeager
American Aviator
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
Quote examples
Jonathan Bailey
English Actor
My toothbrush is analogue all the way. There's a supersonic Oral-B in the cabinet but I like an old-fashioned DIY to get a full clean. Firm bristles.
Quote examples
Carrie Preston
American Actress
Neutrogena Ultra Sheer sunscreen makes me feel like I'm getting supersonic protection because I am so, so pale and need all the help I can get!
Quote examples
James Stockdale
American Soldier
I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
Quote examples
Ozzy Osbourne
English Musician
I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
Example 1 of 10
WordUp Chrome Extension
As you browse the web instantly look up words you don’t know.
Get Chrome Extension