(astronautics) A firing of the engines of a spacecraft to enable it to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

plural of burn book

(informal) A union-busting tactic where a business focuses on hiring new workers who are not unionists, so that the influence of the union will gradually decrease as its supporters leave.

A burn, ordinarily superficial and on someone's skin, resulting from proximity to an explosion of gunpowder, such as that associated with the discharge of a firearm.

The furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulfur and arsenic from the pyrites.

plural of millipede burn

A brownish pigmentation or burn on the skin caused by the toxic liquid secreted by some millipedes.

plural of razor burn

skin irritation caused by shaving improperly, or with a blunt razor

plural of deorbit burn