plural of solid shot

(military, artillery, dated) A solid round shot or cannonball.

plural of solid rocket

(astronautics) A rocket engine (rocket motor) that uses a solid propellant that, when combusted, generates gases which are used for rocket propulsion. / (astronautics) A rocket that uses such an engine.

(US politics, historical) The electoral support of the Southern United States for Democratic Party candidates for nearly a century from 1877, the end of the Reconstruction, to 1964.

plural of solid angle

Physically very solid; very difficult to move. / (figuratively) Very strong and dependable.

(geometry) The solid body generated by the intersection of two or three cylinders of equal radius at right angles.

plural of Steinmetz solid

Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; said of a weldless tube.