soft landing

Noun

countable uncountable

(countable, aeronautics) A landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload and/or the vehicle. / (countable, economics) A business cycle downturn which avoids recession.

Japanese Meaning

（航空宇宙）搭載物や機体を損傷せずに着陸すること / （経済学）不況を回避しながら景気後退を緩やかにする局面

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The engineers celebrated when the capsule achieved a soft landing, preserving both the crew and the research instruments.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

エンジニアたちは、カプセルが軟着陸を果たして乗組員と研究機器の両方が無事だったことを祝った。

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Sense（1）

(countable, aeronautics) A landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload and/or the vehicle.

Sense（2）

(countable, economics) A business cycle downturn which avoids recession.

Sense（3）

(uncountable, chemistry) 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.

soft landings

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