supersonic
nounEtymology From super- + sonic. Doublet of hypersonic.
1
An aircraft that can travel at the speed of sound.
- Related terms
- superluminal
supersonic
adjEtymology From super- + sonic. Doublet of hypersonic.
1
Of a speed Greater than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure).
- supersonic jet
- supersonic movement
2 more examples
- supersonic plane
- supersonic speed
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Colloquial, Of a sound Ultrasonic, having a frequency too high to be audible.
- Derived terms
- nonsupersonic, supermagnetosonic, supersonically, supersonic heterodyne receiver
- Related terms
- plasmasonic, hypersonic, transonic, subsonic, infrasonic, sonic