afterburning
noun
afterburning is a noun meaning “The injection of extra fuel into a jet engine downstream of the turbines in order to achieve extra thrust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-F-T-E-R-B-U-R-N-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does afterburning mean?
noun
- 1
The injection of extra fuel into a jet engine downstream of the turbines in order to achieve extra thrust.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is afterburning?
Afterburning appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Afterburning in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense injection of extra fuel into a jet engine:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | pós-combustão |
| Spanish | postcombustión |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does afterburning come from?
From after- + burning.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).