full-burn
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English
Noun
- A state of full power where thrusters etc. are burning to the maximum.
- 2001, Eric Nylund, Halo: The Fall of Reach, New York: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 148:
- "Lieutenant Hikowa, set the Shiva's course for mark one eight zero. Full burn for twelve seconds."
Verb
full-burn (third-person singular simple present full-burns, present participle full-burning, simple past and past participle full-burned or full-burnt)
- (transitive, intransitive) To burn fully or completely.
- 1892, Pehr Kalm, Kalm's account of his visit to England:
- The chalk which is laid in the morning in the kiln to burn, is in it, sometimes two, sometimes three days, before it passes through the kiln, and becomes full-burned.
- 2008, Janet Lee Carey, Dragon's Keep:
- When Kadmi was full-burned we covered him with soil, the heat of his bones making the very earth hiss and steam.
- 2011, Laurann Dohner, Taunting Krell:
- Cyan full-burned the thrusters to gain speed, turning the shuttle away from the planet toward the distant moons.
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