noun
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An aircraft that can travel at the speed of sound.
adjective
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(of a speed) greater than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure)
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(of a sound) ultrasonic, having a frequency too high to be audible
Examples of supersonic in a Sentence
Technology has advanced at supersonic speeds, and bullying has adapted to the changing times.
From high speed internet access to stock car racing to supersonic flight to fast food service, humans are obsessed with a need for speed.
It was the RAF's first truly supersonic fighter.
The British Air Force received a supersonic aircraft five years later on.
It is also used as a cooling medium for nuclear reactors, and as a gas for supersonic wind tunnels.
The flagship of the British Airways fleet, Concorde was the world's only supersonic passenger airliner.
She is painted in a specially developed white paint to accommodate these changes and to dissipate the heat generated by supersonic flight.
No more having to play the supersonic statesman from a rental jumbo.
Although the Hunter was the first aircraft to fly supersonic, the P1 was the first to break the sound barrier in level flight.
That was the first operational sort of maneuver on that supersonic airplane on only its third flight !
With the acceptance that regions of star formation evolve rapidly and that the features are transient, the properties of supersonic turbulence become crucial.
The supersonic combustion ramjet, or scramjet, operated for about 10 seconds - the duration of its hydrogen fuel supply.
The world 's first, and to date only, commercial supersonic jet - Concorde - was designed and built in Bristol.
The Concorde Project was a 20th century allegory and the only regular supersonic travel.
In addition, the STAR collaboration observed that the collision fireball expanded violently, at supersonic speeds.
The air is a thick haze of supersonic grit, the fire is burning in the wind like a blast furnace.
The historic Concorde fleet of seven supersonic jets made its last flights in October after 34 years of air supremacy.
These models also imply that strong-flavour jets are highly supersonic with respect to their internal sound speed.
The first ever supersonic flight by a commercial jet into the USA landed at Dulles on 24 May 1976.
In 2000 Boeing announced a plan for a supersonic airliner - the Sonic Cruiser.
Tom Shelley reports Particles fired in a plasma at supersonic speeds are producing metal matrix composites of superior properties at surprisingly modest cost.
The aircraft went supersonic in a dive on 12 December 1961.