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launcher definition

launcher (lôn′c̸hər)

noun

  1. a catapult
  2. a device for shooting a grenade from a rifle
    in full grenade launcher
  3. a device or structure that provides initial guidance to a self-propelled missile, spacecraft, etc. or that catapults an airplane from a flight deck

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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