How to Use hypervelocity in a Sentence

hypervelocity

noun

• They could be used as a hypervelocity gun on a main battle tank.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2018
• This is orders of magnitude slower than the hypervelocity impacts that a shuttle deals with, but the spear is thousands of times more massive than a fleck of paint.
  — Kyle Hill, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2013
• This is orders of magnitude slower than the hypervelocity impacts that a shuttle deals with, but the spear is thousands of times more massive than a fleck of paint.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2013
• There are alternative scenarios, but none explains why most of the 20 or so hypervelocity stars found so far are all in the same area of sky, in the Leo and Sextans constellations.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 4 July 2017
• Since then, astronomers have discovered about 20 of these fast-moving stars, known as hypervelocity stars.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 6 July 2017
• Keith Hawkins, an astronomer at Columbia University who studies hypervelocity stars but did take not part in the research, agrees there is further work to be done.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 9 May 2018
• Instead, the Navy is pursuing an offshoot of the railgun, a hypervelocity projectile, that can be fired from existing gun systems.
  — David Sharp, Chron, 1 July 2021
• Beyond that the Army is looking at hypervelocity glide weapons with a range exceeding 1,700 miles, and a strategic cannon that potentially can reach far, far beyond the range of any previous cannon—hundreds of miles at least.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• From the Gaia data Shen’s team flagged seven candidate hypervelocity white dwarf stars.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 9 May 2018
• Claremont for one doesn’t expect the advent of better drones or hypervelocity cannon shells to change navies’ attitudes toward half-carriers.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• The traditional picture of how hypervelocity stars are made begins with a binary star system.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2019
• Another missile slated for mass production is called a hypervelocity gliding projectile, which is more maneuverable than other missiles although the technology is still in the early stages.
  — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• According to Air Force magazine, the Paladin fired a new hypersonic Mach 5 hypervelocity projectile and successfully intercepted the target.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2020
• For the next four years, officials there labored away quietly on projects ranging from swarming microdrones to hypervelocity projectiles, until the Pentagon finally revealed the organization's existence.
  — chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024