lithobraking

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Deceleration of a falling object due to impact with the ground.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of lithobrake

Word forms

lithobraking

Etymology

From litho- (“pertaining to stone”) + braking, by analogy to aerobraking. First attested in c. 1999

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