Collocations withpropulsion
These are words often used in combination withpropulsion.
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electric propulsion
However electric propulsion technology is the most developed.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
main propulsion
Gas turbines have become the main propulsion units for surface ships.
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means of propulsion
It may cover vehicles with electrical means of propulsion, as well as electricity playing a role in their functionality.
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propulsion system
It also includes fault-tolerant control of a chemical process, and of a ship propulsion system, and of a steam generator.
From theCambridge English Corpus
propulsion unit
I am not aware of any attempt to use hydrogen peroxide as a source of energy in any industrial propulsion unit.
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rocket propulsion
Rocket propulsion by staged thermonuclear explosions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
space propulsion
In addition, it provides a method of generating plasma magnetospheres for laboratory simulation of astrophysical studies and space propulsion.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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