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hard landing definition

☆ hard landing

a landing, as of a rocket on the moon, made at relatively high speed, with an impact that may destroy all or much of the equipment

Related Forms:

  • hard-land hard′·-land′ intransitive verb, transitive verb

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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