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Definition of Rocket range
1. Noun. A firing range for rocket missiles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rocket Range
Literary usage of Rocket range
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"The stick for a 32-lb. rocket is 18 feet in length, and the maximum Congreve
rocket range 3500 yards. The range can be also increased by discharging the ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1868)
"The stick for a 32-lb. rocket is 18 feet in length, and the maximum Congreve
Rocket, range 3500 yards. The range can be abo increased by discharging the ..."
3. Capital (1888)
"Exactly what purpose this mysterious rocket range serves is not generally known.
The West Germans claim it is purely experimental, has no military ..."
4. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1810)
"... but the distance to which rocket range* on the earth's surface being so very
small compared with its circumference, the errour arising from the contrary ..."
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