trijet

English

The three engines of the McDonnell Douglas MD-11, a trijet manufactured from 1988 to 2000.

Etymology

From tri- +‎ jet.

Noun

trijet (plural trijets)

1. (aviation) An aircraft powered by three jet engines.
2. (physics) Three jets of particles from an event or source.

Hypernyms

(set of three particle jets):

• multijet

Coordinate terms

(aircraft):

• monojet
• quadjet
• twinjet

Translations

aircraft powered by three jet engines

• Russian: трёхмоторник (trjóxmotornik), трёхмоторный самолёт
• Spanish: trirreactor

Anagrams

• jitter