Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word JETTISON

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Definitions of JETTISON

1. To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
2. (uncountable, collective) Items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
3. (countable) The action of jettisoning items.
4. (figurative) To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.

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Examples of Using JETTISON in a Sentence

• The skids did not extend beyond the ventral fin, which required the pilot to jettison the lower fin just before landing.
• Higher altitude failures after shroud jettison would involve detaching the entire spacecraft from the booster.
• The engines were slightly more powerful and the changes in mass resulted in modifications to the flight plan--the core stage would be throttled down and the strap-ons throttled up 25% prior to their jettison.
• All Solid Rocket Motor (SRM)-equipped Titans (IIIC, IIID, IIIE, 34D, and IV) launched with only the SRMs firing at liftoff, the core stage not activating until T+105 seconds, shortly before SRM jettison.
• In September 1862, she was ordered to Aspinwall, Granadine Confederation, where — from November 22–24 — a severe storm forced her to jettison all spars, sails, gun carriages, howitzers, shot, powder, provisions, and water.
• Following the jettison of the DPS, the X-38 would have glided from orbit and used a steerable parafoil for its final descent and landing.
• When one of the elevators is partially destroyed, purging these plates require the technical crew to jettison the counterweight at the orbital end in order to avoid the now-unbalanced elevator's complete collapse.
• I myself represent those said to be 'terrorists' and since Magna Carta, in 1215, we have presumed people innocent rather than guilty…it is clear beyond dispute that when we jettison our principles we make ourselves hypocrites and hypocrisy is the yeast that ferments extremism.
• According to Schlichter's father, Hayes was so enthralled with the young quarterback that he was willing to jettison his "three yards and a cloud of dust" offense and throw as many as twenty-five times a game if Schlichter signed with the Buckeyes.
• Rose takes Zach's bolt gun and shoots out the rocket's front window, unhooking Toby's safety harness to jettison him into space.
• The bomber was high enough for the crew to jettison the bombs and incendiaries and glide to France, where it crash-landed at Cherbourg.
• Stranded, the four agree to jettison back into Icarus II wearing the only spacesuit and airlock insulation; despite Harvey's protests, Capa is given the suit as the only person who can deploy the payload.
• Hornet escaped only after a chase lasting two and a half days, during which Biddle had been forced to jettison his stores, ballast, anchors, cables, guns, small arms, capstan, the armourer's anvil, ship's bell and even substantial parts of the forecastle to lighten the sloop enough to outrun Cornwallis.
• Return to launch site (RTLS) was the first abort mode available and could be selected just after SRB jettison.
• Once the Orion was docked with the Altair and its systems were checked out, the crew was to jettison the loiter skirt and then fire the J-2X engine for a second time, this time at 80% rated thrust, for trans-lunar injection (TLI).
• Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie) seeks to keep the ship "spick and span" and arranges for Dave Lister (Craig Charles) to be obedient by rationing his cigarettes and threatening to jettison the ship's entire supply if he disobeys.
• Although the Lebedev is lagging Merton's yacht, its senior pilot delivers a surprise blow by announcing that he plans to jettison his co-pilot in an escape capsule now that the earlier, navigationally intensive part of the race has finished.
• Seconds before midnight, White decodes Scarlet's message and orders Ochre to shoot out one of the base's observation windows and jettison the crystal, which explodes harmlessly in the atmosphere.
• You Only Live Twice was the first Bond film to jettison the plot premise of the Fleming source material, although the film retains the title, the Japanese setting, the use of Blofeld as the main villain and a Bond girl named Kissy Suzuki from the novel.
• Compounding Japanese crews' undoubted frustration, when under attack, the Shiun's main float jettison mechanism — which had been wind-tunnel tested, but never tried on an actual airplane prior to manufacture — failed to work in combat.

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