How to pronounce“defunct”in English
Of the more than 500 collisions and breakups and explosions in space, one of the most consequential was in 2009 when the Iridium 33 communication satellite collided with a
defunct Russian satellite, creating thousands of new pieces of space debris.
The International Space Station actually had to move a few times to avoid that debris field because it endangered the lives of astronauts on board.
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Definitions of “defunct”
No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
“[T]he engineer must solve the mysteries of boiler accidents by studying defunct structures of many different types.”
No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
To make defunct.
The dead person (referred to).
“A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon wᶜʰ the friends of yᵉ defunct lay their offerings in mony according to their own ability and the quality of the person deceased.”
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