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Pewee

Pewee meaning

Any of various tyrant flycatchers of the genus Contopus. | A woodcock. | An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.

Synonyms of Pewee

peewee peewit pewit wood pewee contopus virens new world flycatcher flycatcher tyrant flycatcher tyrant bird

Example sentences (5)

Pewee 2's fuel elements reduced fuel corrosion still further, by a factor of 3 in Nuclear Furnace testing, but Pewee 2 was never tested on the stand.

A KIWI engine being destructively tested A smaller version of KIWI, the Pewee was also built.

Current (2010) convert reference designs (NERVA-Derivative Rockets, or NDRs) are based on the Pewee, and have specific impulses of 925 seconds.

It was fired several times at 500 MW in order to test coatings made of zirconium carbide (instead of niobium carbide ) but Pewee also increased the power density of the system.

Later designs were deemed by NASA to be usable for space exploration and Los Alamos felt that it had cured the last of the materials problems with the untested Pewee.