rocketry

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English

Launch of a small rocket in Virginia in 2008

Etymology

From rocket +‎ -ry.

Noun

rocketry (usually uncountable, plural rocketries)

  1. The making and launching of rockets, its science and practice.
    • 2007, Matthew Limpede, Carve Magazine 2007 Anthology, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 73:
      Businesses he wants to invest in when Grandma Lorna dies and makes him rich: Jaglion hybrids, ostrich farming to produce eggs with low cholesterol, Nap World where business people can power nap, and rocketry to thrust garbage barges into outer space for quasars and solar flares to fry.

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