interstage (English, noun)
expansion: interstage (plural interstages)
Senses:
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The structure, generally containing mechanical components and instruments but no engines or fuel tanks, connecting the top of a stage of a multistage rocket to the bottom of the stage above it.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The components of a multistage thermonuclear weapon which channel the radiation produced by the primary's fission explosion so as to trigger the implosion of the secondary and ignite a fusion explosion in the secondary's fusion fuel.
Forms:
form: interstages
tags: plural