Mach number
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English
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Etymology
After the physicist Ernst Mach.
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Noun
- The ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the surrounding medium.
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Translations
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See also
- subsonic < Mach 1
- transonic ~ Mach 1
- supersonic > Mach 1
- hypersonic >= Mach 5