splashdown

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

"He [John Wolfram] was the fastest swimmer in the group and knew he would be the first at splashdown."
"To get back to Earth, the space capsule had to withstand predicted temperatures of about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit and slow down from nearly 25,000 miles per hour — or more than 30 times the speed of sound — to a gentle 19 mph or so before splashdown."

Deverbal from splash down.

splashdowns (plural)

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