SOUND BARRIER


Meaning of SOUND BARRIER in English

noun

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At the time of his death Campbell was unsuccessfully seeking backers for a jet-driven car to go through the sound barrier .

Fast fighter jets -- many traveling within earshot of the sound barrier -- will headline the shows.

I've even taken an F-15 jet to within a whisker of the sound barrier .

In 1979, Stanley Barrett broke the sound barrier on land.

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