Afterbody

Quick meaning: Afterbody is a noun meaning The afterpart of a vehicle.

Meaning

The afterpart of a vehicle.

More Meanings

1. (nautical) The part of a vessel abaft midships.
2. (astronomy) A companion body that trails a satellite or spacecraft.
3. (astronautics) A section or piece of a launch vehicle, rocket, or spacecraft that enters the atmosphere unprotected behind the nose cone or other body that is protected for entry.

Example Sentences

However, turbulent flow along the vehicle afterbody can under some conditions produce a comparable or greater heat flux.

As well as could be judged by looking down through the water under the counters, there was no injury whatever to the afterbody of the ship.

The extension of slender-body theory to account for the interaction of the afterbody with vortex sheets shed upstream has been carried out by Newman and Wu (1973) in the general case where the local lateral velocity of the body differs from the downwash of the trailing vortices.

After the diagonals are drawn in the plane of the projection, the ribbands may be laid down in the horizontal plane, and from thence all the other frames may be laid down in the plane of projection, in the very same manner that the horizontal ribbands and the frames for the afterbody were laid down.

Word Forms

• afterbodies
• after body

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include underbody, rear end, back end, behind, undercar, posterior.

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