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Definition of Rocket base
1. Noun. A military base for rocket missiles.
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rocket Base
Literary usage of Rocket base
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1811)
"... (which is the t. of olir hypotheses concerning the law of resistance), w
putting r for the radius of the rocket's base or of tl of the rocket ; f = the ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"Bot Commonly so called in gardens. Rocket, Base. See Base Rocket. Rocket, Bastard.
Sinapis arvensis, L.—Prior, p. 196. Rocket, Blue. ..."
3. Capital (1888)
"Unless, of course, tbey acted in defence of something »ith which they are not
generally believed to be associated, such as the West German rocket base, ..."
4. Brazil by Anton Jakob, Fernanda Cordoeiro, Claus Jäke (1999)
"Electricity only arrived in this dilapidated village in 1988 after the Brazilian
government began building a rocket base nearby. ..."
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