rapid descent

collocation in English

meaningsofrapidanddescent

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rapid
adjective
uk
/ˈræp.ɪd/us
/ˈræp.ɪd/
fast ...
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descent
noun
uk
/dɪˈsent/us
/dɪˈsent/
the state or fact of being related to a particular person or group of people who lived in ...
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(Definition ofrapidanddescentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The plane landed with no incident and only one minor injury was recorded in someone's inner ear due to therapiddescent.
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The plane banked left, overturned and went into arapiddescent.
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Rapiddescentrisks being unable to complete the lift or causing injury.
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The captain then pushed the control column abruptly forward causing the aircraft to start arapiddescent.
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The pilot continued hisrapiddescentfor several hundred feet.
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Therefore, he started arapiddescentas a precaution.
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The system failed to withstand shock stress caused byrapiddescentand transition into parachuting mode, and began disintegrating.
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The captain then pushed the control column abruptly and roughly forward causing the plane to enter arapiddescent.
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The aircraft was so aerodynamically slick thatrapiddescent(penetration) from high cruise altitude to the landing pattern required dragging the deployed rear landing gear.
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The car makes yet anotherrapiddescent; this one leads through a graveyard-themed room.
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Oxygen masks deployed and the pilots performed arapiddescentto 11000ftm 0.
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The aircraft struck the ground in a sparsely populated area after a very steep andrapiddescent, narrowly avoiding crashing into a highly populated one.
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The name of the show is a play on tailspin, therapiddescentof an aircraft in a steep spiral.
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The cabin depressurized explosively necessitating arapiddescentto denser (breathable) air and an emergency landing.
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She sank between 03:38 and 03:50; only a few dozen men survived herrapiddescentand massive oil fire, and only ten reached shore.
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The ride usually culminates with arapiddescentand splashdown into a body of water, which may happen more than once (normally the largest drop being just before the end).
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The sharks' daytime swimming patterns are usually steady, while at night they have a pattern of slow ascents and rapid descents.
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