soft-land (English, verb)
expansion: soft-land (third-person singular simple present soft-lands, present participle soft-landing, simple past and past participle soft-landed)
Senses:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
astronautics
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To land (a vehicle or other payload) on the surface of a body in such a manner that it survives the landing mostly or entirely intact and is usable or able to operate, at least briefly, following touchdown.
tags: intransitive
transitive
Forms:
form: soft-lands
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soft-landing
tags: participle
present
form: soft-landed
tags: participle
past
form: soft-landed
tags: past
form: soft land
tags: alternative