Mesosonic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Mesosonic is an adjective meaning (aerospace) Describing motion through a two-phase medium, usually electrons and heavy ions, at a speed between the speeds of sound in the two components.
Meaning
(aerospace) Describing motion through a two-phase medium, usually electrons and heavy ions, at a speed between the speeds of sound in the two components.
Example Sentences
In space plasmas, spacecraft usually encounter mesosonic flows, i.e. flows which are supersonic with respect to the ion thermal speed, but subsonic with respect to the electron thermal speed.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include intermeson, intersonic, magnetosonic, supermagnetosonic, transonic, subsonic.
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