English Explanatory Dictionary

soft landing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload or the vehicle.
  2. A business cycle downturn which avoids recession.
  3. A form of mass spectrometry characterized by deposition of intact species on surfaces at low kinetic energies which precludes the fragmentation of the incident species.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of soft land
noun
  1. Sudden or extreme changes in speed.

Word forms

soft landing soft landings

Etymology

From the beatmania IIDX 2nd style song "SOFT LANDING ON THE BODY".

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