jettisons
Meaning of jettisons
- throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship.
six aircraft jettisoned their loads in the sea
late Middle English (as a noun denoting the throwing of goods overboard to lighten a ship in distress): from Old French getaison, from Latin jactatio(n- ), from jactare ‘to throw’ (see jet1). The verb dates from the mid 19th century.
Information about jettisons
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of jettisons is: jettison.
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Hyphenation of jettisons
jet-ti-sons
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- jettisons is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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