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launching

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • United States

The act by which something is launched; a launch.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of launchpresent participle and gerund of launch

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is launched; a launch.

    The launching of the Titanic.

    By 1940 they had conducted 25 successful launchings of A5 rockets, which reached 10 miles altitude and had a range of 12 miles.

Forms

plural
launchings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).