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noun (pl=Brennschlí¼sse)
- The moment in the trajectory of a rocket when the fuel burn out, burns out, after which it continues with its own momentum for some distance and then begins to succumb to gravity; all-burnt, burn-out
- 1973: The white line, abruptly, has stopped its climb. That would be fuel cutoff, end of burning, what"s their word". We don"t have one. Or else it"s classified. " Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Etymology: From German.
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