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Heat Shield

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Noun

1. heat shield

a protective covering that protects a spacecraft from overheating on reentry

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Heat Shield

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noun
a coating or barrier for shielding from excessive heat, such as that experienced by a spacecraft on re-entry into the earth's atmosphere

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Heat Shield

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any heat-protecting device or system, esp. an ablative coating or tiles, bonded to the surface of a reentry spacecraft

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Heat Shield

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n.
A barrier that prevents the heating of a space or an object by absorbing, reflecting, or dissipating external heat, especially a protective structure on a spacecraft or missile that dissipates heat on atmospheric reentry by melting and vaporizing.

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