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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

detumble en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + tumble.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To prevent tumbling or spinning of (a satellite, an astronaut, etc.).
    • The goal of the described control application is to detumble a satellite (reduce its kinetic energy) while achieving a desired orientation. 1995, Jose Mira, From Natural to Artificial Neural Computation, page 315:

Forms

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detumbling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
detumbles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
detumbled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
detumbled Tense=Past lexicographic