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Meanings of thruster in English

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propulsor

One who intrudes or pushes himself forward.

propulsor
Usage of thruster in English
1
Those thruster issues may have caused the spacecraft to fail other tests.
Wired
2
With precarious thruster adjustments I am able to maintain a stable descent.
Ghosts of Onyx
3
Mulchs foot jabbed the thruster pedal, just enough to halt the drop.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
4
Elon Musk messaged that there is an issue with Dragon thruster pods.
Wired
5
Casting down the retriever, he jammed the thruster bars forward once more.
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
6
She checked her HUD, and tapped a correction on her thruster controls.
Changer of Worlds
7
A shudder passed through the floor like a badly tuned thruster firing.
Nemesis Game
8
Force from the thruster is proportional to the area of the thruster.
Wired
9
Holly nudged the starboard thruster to avoid a missile of half-melted rock.
Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident
10
A second thruster started to fire, checking the spin given by the first.
Rendezvous with Rama
11
What if you kept the thruster on for a long time?
Wired
12
Without the thruster packs used in Metaball, acceleration is severely limited.
Space Master, GM Book
13
I'm even having to expend my RC thruster reaction mass to achieve orbit.
The Neutronium Alchemist
14
He glared furiously at a bull-necked thruster in a pink coat.
No Man's Land
15
He yanked back on the thruster bars, returning them to the neutral position.
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
16
You don't get any sideways impulse unless the thruster's actually going.
Nemesis Game
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Thruster through the time
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