splash downとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

splash down (plural splash downs)

1. Alternative form of splashdown

動詞

splash down (third-person singular simple present splashes down, present participle splashing down, simple past and past participle splashed down)

1. (of a spacecraft or other flying object) To land in water.
2. (idiomatic) To appear, seemingly from nowhere.

語源

Deverbal from splash down.

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名詞

splashdown (countable and uncountable, plural splashdowns)

1. The act of landing in water, as by a space capsule or rollercoaster.
   • 2020, John Rocco, How We Got to the Moon, page 235:

     He [John Wolfram] was the fastest swimmer in the group and knew he would be the first at splashdown.

   • 2026 April 10, Amina Khan, “WATCH LIVE: Artemis II astronauts have splashed down on Earth”, in National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio:

     To get back to Earth, the space capsule had to withstand predicted temperatures of about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit and slow down from nearly 25,000 miles per hour — or more than 30 times the speed of sound — to a gentle 19 mph or so before splashdown.

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