Challenger

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Proper noun

Challenger

  1. A space shuttle, named after HMS Challenger (1858), destroyed on January 28, 1986 with loss of its seven-member crew.

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Noun

Challenger (plural Challengers)

  1. (rail transport) a steam locomotive of the 4-6-6-4 wheel arrangement.
     4-6-6-4 on Wikipedia
    • 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 102:
      American Locomotive Company, which introduced the 4-6-6-4 (on Union Pacific) in 1936, constructed more Challengers than any other builder and, in Northern Pacific's Z-8 class, built the heaviest. NP owned 48 4-6-6-4's in three classes.

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