Usually means: Secondary combustion increases jet thrust.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word afterburner:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. afterburner: Merriam-Webster
  2. afterburner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. afterburner: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. afterburner: Collins English Dictionary
  5. afterburner: Vocabulary.com
  6. Afterburner, afterburner: Wordnik
  7. afterburner: Wiktionary
  8. afterburner: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. afterburner: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. afterburner: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. afterburner: Dictionary.com
  12. Afterburner (Dance Gavin Dance album), Afterburner (Fun Spot), Afterburner (ZZ Top album), Afterburner (album), Afterburner (disambiguation), Afterburner (engine), Afterburner (modification kit), Afterburner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. afterburner: Rhymezone
  14. afterburner: FreeDictionary.org
  15. afterburner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. afterburner: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. afterburner: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. afterburner: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Afterburner (engine), afterburner: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. afterburner: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Afterburner: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (afterburner)

noun:  (aviation) A device in a jet engine which injects fuel into the exhaust system to increase the thrust.

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