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Meaning of PROPULSIVE

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  tending to or capable of propelling; "propellant fuel for submarines"; "the faster a jet plane goes the greater its propulsive efficiency"; "universities...the seats of propulsive thought"
  2. [adj]  having the power to propel; "propulsive coefficient"
 
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 Synonyms: dynamic, dynamical, propellant, propellent, propelling
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pro*pul"sive\, a.
Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.
``[The] propulsive movement of the verse.'' --Coleridge.
 

 

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