soft landing (English, noun)
expansion: soft landing (countable and uncountable, plural soft landings)
Senses:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload or the vehicle.
tags: countable
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A business cycle downturn which avoids recession.
tags: countable
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of mass spectrometry characterized by deposition of intact species on surfaces at low kinetic energies which precludes the fragmentation of the incident species.
tags: uncountable
Forms:
form: soft landings
tags: plural