afterburner

See also: after-burner

English

Etymology

From after- +‎ burner

Noun

afterburner (plural afterburners)

1. (aviation) A device in the engine of an aircraft which injects fuel into the exhaust system to increase the thrust.

Translations

a device in a turbojet engine which injects fuel into the exhaust system to increase the thrust

• Danish: efterbrænder c
• Finnish: jälkipoltin (fi)
• German: Nachbrenner m
• Hungarian: utánégető
• Irish: iardhóire m
• Japanese: アフターバーナー (afutābānā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: etterbrenner (no) m

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• Persian: افتر برنر (after-berner), پس‌سوز (pas-suz)
• Portuguese: pós-combustor m
• Russian: форса́жная ка́мера f (forsážnaja kámera), дожига́тель (ru) m (dožigátelʹ)
• Spanish: postquemador m