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Booster   /bˈustər/   Listen
noun
Booster  n.  
1.
(Elec.) An instrument for regulating the electro-motive force in an alternating-current circuit; so called because used to "boost", or raise, the pressure in the circuit.
2.
An enthusiastic supporter.
3.
The first stage of a multistage rocket, providing all or part of the driving force at lift-off and until the second stage ignites, whether or not the booster stage is detached after the fuel is spent. Also called booster rocket. In some cases, a booster has been used to assist the takeoff of airplanes.
4.
(Med.) An immunizing medication given after an initial immunizing treatment, to provide increased or extended immunity. Also called booster dose. When in the form of an injection, it may be called a booster shot.
5.
Any auxiliary device or part of a device to provide increased power, force, or effectiveness, as with a pumping device.
6.
(Mil.) An explosive charge which is more powerful than a primer, used in conjunction with a primer to assure detonation of the main charge. Integrated blasting caps containing separate compartments for primer and booster are used as detonators for certain explosives.





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"Booster" Quotes from Famous Books



... group works out types of personality, hero types to be emulated, traitor types to be execrated. These personality types merge into abstract ideals and standards. "Booster" and "knocker" bring up pictures of a struggling community which must preserve its hopefulness and self-esteem at all hazards. "Statesman" and "demagogue" recall the problem of selection which every self-governing community must ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... fine. I've a small policy myself in your company, and it's certainly good of you to pick out the First National to place these loans. I'll be a real booster for your company now. ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson
... John Smith (Miss Euphrosyne de Lacy) was to be represented prostrate and bound, ready for execution; Powhatan (Miss Florence Smythe) sitting upon a log; savages with clubs (Misses Clara Browne, A. Van Boodle, E. Van Boodle, Heister, Booster, etc., etc.) standing around; Pocahontas holding the knife in her hand, ready to cut the cords with which Captain John Smith ...
— The Guardian Angel • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... worry, Ken. No need to dash into the business like a Chicago booster. Just go at it quietly but unwaveringly. I suppose a good many of the B. & I. commissions are still open, and there's bound to be a little buying elsewhere, but I'm a seller of wheat, too, wherever there's ...
— The Profiteers • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... The Dixie Booster for January is Mr. Raymond E. Nixon's Capital City News, transferred to the amateur world, and continued under the new name. With this number the editor's brother, Mr. Roy W. Nixon, assumes the position of Associate Editor. This neat little magazine is home-printed throughout, ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft


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