yo-weight (English, noun)
expansion: yo-weight (plural yo-weights)
Senses:
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A weight unreeled from a discarded rocket stage to unbalance the stage and cause it to tumble, preventing the stage's residual thrust from causing it to ram the payload that discarded the stage.
Forms:
form: yo-weights
tags: plural