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Type of rocket
photon rocket is a rocket that uses thrust from the momentum of emitted photons (radiation pressure by emission) for its propulsion. Photon rockets have
Photon_rocket
Satellite bus made by Rocket Lab
Photon is a satellite bus based on Rocket Lab's Electron kick stage. It moves satellites into their appropriate orbits once boosted by rockets such as
Rocket_Lab_Photon
Rocket engine that uses photons to propel a spacecraft
acceleration is very low. The photon radiators would most likely be constructed using graphite or tungsten. Photonic rockets are technologically feasible
Nuclear_photonic_rocket
American public spaceflight company
manufacturer of components for small satellites. Rocket Lab said that it would use Sinclair technology on its Photon line of small satellite buses, and that it
Rocket_Lab
Planned 2020s private Venus astrobiology probe
developed by Rocket Lab in collaboration with a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The spacecraft will consist of a Photon Explorer cruise
Venus_Life_Finder
Rocket engine
the Electron rocket, as well as the Photon. The composition of the propellant is a trade secret. The kick stage rocket produces 120 newtons (27 lbf) of thrust
Curie_(rocket_engine)
Two-stage small launch vehicle, 200-300 kg to LEO
orbital-class rocket. Electron is often flown with a kickstage or Rocket Lab's Photon spacecraft. Although the rocket was designed to be expendable, Rocket Lab
Rocket_Lab_Electron
Type of spacecraft
to annihilation means the above rocket equation does not hold. Other antimatter rockets in addition to the photon rocket that can provide a 0.6c specific
Relativistic_rocket
CEO of Rocket Lab
of Rocket Lab, an aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider. Before founding Rocket Lab, Beck worked in various occupations and built rocket-powered
Peter_Beck
Proposed rocket propulsion mechanism
The nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR) is a theoretical type of nuclear thermal rocket designed by Robert Zubrin. In place of traditional chemical propellant
Nuclear_salt-water_rocket
Type of spacecraft propulsion system
A nuclear electric rocket (more properly nuclear electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion system where thermal energy from a nuclear reactor
Nuclear_electric_rocket
Non-airbreathing engine used to propel a missile or vehicle
Energy for Rocket Vehicle Applications), a US nuclear thermal rocket programme Photon rocket Project Prometheus, NASA development of nuclear propulsion for
Rocket_engine
Nuclear spacecraft propulsion technology
rocket (NTR) is a type of thermal rocket where the heat from a nuclear reaction replaces the chemical energy of the propellants in a chemical rocket.
Nuclear_thermal_rocket
Rocket driven by nuclear fusion power
A fusion rocket is a theoretical design for a rocket driven by fusion propulsion, which could provide efficient and sustained acceleration in space without
Fusion_rocket
Space propulsion method using Sun radiation
Solar sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight
Solar_sail
Method used to accelerate spacecraft
propulsion Diametric drive Disjunction drive Pitch drive Bias drive Photon rocket Quantum vacuum thruster Nano electrokinetic thruster Reactionless drive
Spacecraft_propulsion
Type of electric propulsion
were converted to thrust. Ad Astra Rocket Company is developing the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR). Canadian company Nautel is
Plasma_propulsion_engine
Physical and science fiction concept
thruster Thermal rocket Water rocket Steam rocket Solar sail Diffractive Electric sail Magnetic sail Solar thermal rocket Photon rocket WINE Chemical propulsion
Anti-gravity
New Zealand aerospace entrepreneur
Mark Rocket (né Stevens) is a New Zealand entrepreneur, aerospace executive, and the founder and CEO of Kea Aerospace. He was a seed investor and co-director
Mark_Rocket
Liquid-fueled rocket engine
liquid-propellant rocket engine designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab and manufactured in Long Beach, California. The engine is used on the company's own rocket, Electron
Rutherford_(rocket_engine)
Form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion
panels. The tuning of the laser wavelength of 0.840 micrometres (1.48 eV per photon) and the photovoltaic panel bandgap of 1.43 eV to each other produces an
Magnetoplasmadynamic_thruster
Type of nuclear propulsion method with an ultra high specific-inpulse
The fission-fragment rocket is a rocket engine design that directly harnesses hot nuclear fission products for thrust, as opposed to using a separate fluid
Fission-fragment_rocket
Rocket with a motor that uses solid propellants
solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered
Solid-propellant_rocket
Form of electric spacecraft propulsion
spacecraft must rely on other methods such as conventional chemical rockets or non-rocket launch technologies to reach their initial orbit. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Ion_thruster
Partially-reusable medium-lift launch vehicle
partially reusable, medium-lift, two-stage launch vehicle under development by Rocket Lab. Announced on March 1, 2021, the vehicle is designed to be capable of
Rocket_Lab_Neutron
Rockets using antimatter as their power source
relativistic velocities uses a matter-antimatter GeV gamma ray laser photon rocket made possible by a relativistic proton-antiproton pinch discharge, where
Antimatter propulsion spacecraft
Antimatter_propulsion_spacecraft
Hypothetical spacecraft propulsion through continuous nuclear explosions for thrust
Project Orion was the first serious attempt to design a nuclear pulse rocket. A design was formed at General Atomics during the late 1950s and early
Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
Possible future technology
Nuclear thermal rocket Pulsed nuclear thermal rocket Radioisotope rocket O'Neill cylinder Orbital ring Ouroboros habitat Photon rocket Photonic railway
List of hypothetical technologies
List_of_hypothetical_technologies
Spacecraft propulsion without on-board reaction mass
"A Photon Rocket". Defense Technical Information Center (AD0264133). Retrieved 31 May 2026. Smilga, V. (1960). "There will be no photon rocket". apps
Propellantless spacecraft propulsion
Propellantless_spacecraft_propulsion
Rocket engine that uses liquid fuels and oxidizers
A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket uses a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.)
Liquid-propellant_rocket
Electrothermal thruster in development
The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) is an electrothermal thruster under development for possible use in spacecraft propulsion.
Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket
Variable_Specific_Impulse_Magnetoplasma_Rocket
Hypothetical travel between stars or planetary systems
Friedwardt Winterberg proposed that a matter-antimatter GeV gamma ray laser photon rocket is possible by a relativistic proton-antiproton pinch discharge, where
Interstellar_travel
A radioisotope rocket or radioisotope thermal rocket is a type of thermal rocket engine that uses the heat generated by the decay of radioactive elements
Radioisotope_rocket
Proposed spacecraft propulsion method
field. The Bussard ramjet can thus be seen as a ramjet variant of a fusion rocket.[citation needed] The Bussard ramjet was proposed in 1960 by the physicist
Bussard_ramjet
Rocket that burns 3 propellants at once or 2 fuels with an oxidizer, sequentially
tripropellant rocket is a rocket that uses three propellants, as opposed to the more common bipropellant rocket or monopropellant rocket designs, which
Tripropellant_rocket
Type of electric propulsion system
Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Turner, Martin J.L. (2008). Rocket and Spacecraft Propulsion: Principles, Practice and New Developments. Springer
Hall-effect_thruster
Liquid fuel rocket engine
liquid-fuel rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid methane in an oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle. It is designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab
Archimedes_(rocket_engine)
Liquid form of rocket propellants
The highest specific impulse chemical rockets use liquid propellants (liquid-propellant rockets). They can consist of a single chemical (a monopropellant)
Liquid_rocket_propellant
Launch system that only uses one rocket stage
flown; orbital launches from Earth have been performed by multi-stage rockets, either fully or partially expendable. The main projected advantage of
Single-stage-to-orbit
Conceptual rocket engine
Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) is a conceptual, low radioactivity, nuclear-fusion rocket engine, designed to produce both thrust and electric power, suitable for
Direct_Fusion_Drive
Chemical substance used for propulsion
on the vehicle. Proposed photon rockets would use the relativistic momentum of photons to create thrust. Even though photons do not have mass, they can
Propellant
Launches of Rocket Lab launch vehicle
aboard Electron and Rocket Lab's spacecraft bus platform Photon in 2022. Electron launched for the first time in May 2017, but the rocket was destroyed by
List_of_Electron_launches
Type of rocket engine which uses liquid fuel stored at very low temperatures
A cryogenic rocket engine is a rocket engine that uses a cryogenic fuel and oxidizer; that is, both its fuel and oxidizer are gases which have been liquefied
Cryogenic_rocket_engine
Propulsion concepts and technologies
thermal concepts, Richard Garwin's radiation pressure sail proposals, and photon rocket research by Kurl Stanukovitch of Russia. U.S. Air Force general Donald
Field_propulsion
Commercial spaceport in New Zealand
(all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 (also known as Māhia Launch Complex or Spaceport) is
Rocket_Lab_Launch_Complex_1
Space navigation technique
from gravity assist alone, a rocket burn near the periapsis (closest planetary approach) uses the least fuel. A given rocket burn always provides the same
Gravity_assist
Proposed nuclear pulse propulsion through antimatter-catalyzed nuclear chain reactions
antihydrogen. Tuning of the performance of a space vehicle is also possible. Rocket efficiency is strongly related to the mass of the working mass used, which
Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion
Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion
Rocket engine operation method
cycle, preburner cycle, or closed cycle) is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. In the staged combustion cycle, propellant flows through multiple
Staged_combustion_cycle
Rocket engine operation method
is one of the most commonly used engine cycles in bipropellant liquid rocket engines. Propellant is burned in a gas generator (analogous to, but distinct
Gas-generator_cycle
Space probe that can travel out of the Solar System
via a probe, as opposed to sending an electromagnetic signal. Sanger Photon Rocket (1950s–1964) Eugene Sanger proposed a spacecraft powered by antimatter
Interstellar_probe
Rocket engine that uses both liquid / gaseous and solid fuel
A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor that uses rocket propellants in two different phases: one solid and the other either gas or
Hybrid-propellant_rocket
Type of rocket engine fuel
hypergolic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hypergolic propellant is a rocket propellant whose components spontaneously ignite upon contact with one another
Hypergolic_propellant
Rocket that uses a single propellant with a catalyst
monopropellant rocket (or "monochemical rocket") is a rocket that uses a single chemical as its propellant.[contradictory] Monopropellant rockets are commonly
Monopropellant_rocket
Propulsion system creating motion without propellant
antenna and the EmDrive have later been described as null results, below photon-thrust limits, or experimental artifacts rather than evidence of new physics
Reactionless_drive
Device for measuring the radiant flux (power) of electromagnetic radiation
levels. Active cavity radiometer Bolometer Copernicus Net radiometer Photon rocket Pyranometer Radiation pressure Radiometry Solar sail Spectroradiometer
Radiometer
Type of spacecraft electric propulsion system
An arcjet rocket or arcjet thruster is a form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion, in which an electrical discharge (arc) is created in a flow
Arcjet_rocket
1970s proposal for an interstellar probe
nuclear engines of the NERVA type require a great quantity of fuel. Photon rockets have to generate power at a rate of 3×109 W per kg of vehicle mass and
Project_Daedalus
Type of spacecraft propulsion using electrical energy to accelerate propellant
through electric or magnetic fields. Their principal advantage over chemical rockets is much higher specific impulse, meaning greater propellant efficiency
Spacecraft electric propulsion
Spacecraft_electric_propulsion
Type of rocket engine
a type of rocket engine which uses the expansion of a (typically inert) pressurized gas to generate thrust. As opposed to traditional rocket engines, a
Cold_gas_thruster
Proposed spacelaunch method
A mass driver or electromagnetic catapult is a proposed method of non-rocket spacelaunch which would use a linear motor to accelerate and catapult payloads
Mass_driver
Hypothetical type of spacecraft
nuclear propulsion. Specifically, it would be a type of gas core reactor rocket that uses a quartz wall to separate the nuclear fuel from the coolant and
Nuclear_lightbulb
Spacecraft propulsion device
secondary rocket engine or other high thrust device is used to control the attitude of the rocket, while the primary thrust engine (generally also a rocket engine)
Thrusters_(spacecraft)
Type of propulsion for spacecraft
Plasma Thrusters (PPT's) are not to be confused with the Pulsed Plasma Rocket (PPR) developed by Howe Industries, as the PPT is an electric propulsion
Pulsed_plasma_thruster
Space propulsion system, a gridded electrostatic ion thruster
NASA. 50kW Hall-effect thrusters, now for Lunar Gateway Nuclear electric rocket George R Schmidt; Michael J Patterson; Scott W Benson. "The NASA Evolutionary
NEXT_(ion_thruster)
Load bearing cable connecting objects in space
is theorized to be significantly less expensive than spaceflight using rocket engines. Tether satellites might be used for various purposes, including
Space_tether
Spacecraft propulsion system by NASA. 50kW Hall-effect thrusters, now for Lunar Gateway
is based on the 12.5 kW development model thruster called 'Hall Effect Rocket with Magnetic Shielding' (HERMeS). The AEPS solar electric engine makes
Advanced Electric Propulsion System
Advanced_Electric_Propulsion_System
Space propulsion system
systems were first demonstrated in space by the NASA Lewis Space Electric Rocket Test (SERT) I and II. These thrusters used mercury as the reaction mass
Gridded_ion_thruster
Topics referred to by the same term
album Automatic Photon, the Higonnet and Moyroud's Lumitype[citation needed] Photon, a satellite bus developed by Rocket Lab Photon (arcade cabinet)
Photon_(disambiguation)
Mechanism where confined high-speed particles confer energy to a vehicle
have also been proposed. Rockets are momentum machines; they use mass ejected from the rocket to provide momentum to the rocket. Momentum is the product
Beam-powered_propulsion
thruster Thermal rocket Water rocket Steam rocket Solar sail Diffractive Electric sail Magnetic sail Solar thermal rocket Photon rocket WINE Chemical propulsion
High Power Electric Propulsion
High_Power_Electric_Propulsion
Rocket engine power cycle
is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. The cycle takes a small portion of hot exhaust gas from the rocket engine's combustion chamber and routes
Combustion_tap-off_cycle
American physicist
dust solution to the Einstein field equation and thereby created the photon rocket, an object with mass propelled by the emission of light (radiation without
William_Morris_Kinnersley
Prototype spacecraft propulsion engine
nine months with conventional chemical rockets.[failed verification] Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) J Ling; M D West; T Lafleur;
Helicon_double-layer_thruster
Type of spacecraft plasma propulsion system
thruster Thermal rocket Water rocket Steam rocket Solar sail Diffractive Electric sail Magnetic sail Solar thermal rocket Photon rocket WINE Chemical propulsion
Pulsed_inductive_thruster
thruster Thermal rocket Water rocket Steam rocket Solar sail Diffractive Electric sail Magnetic sail Solar thermal rocket Photon rocket WINE Chemical propulsion
Electrodeless_plasma_thruster
Method of spacecraft propulsion
craft has been inserted into orbit. Most satellites use monopropellant rocket motors or cold gas thrusters for such orbital adjustments. Both methods
Resistojet_rocket
Rocket engine operation method
The electric-pump-fed engine is a bipropellant rocket engine in which the fuel pumps are electrically powered, and so all of the input propellant is directly
Electric-pump-fed_engine
Rocket-propelled by exhausted coolant of a gas-cooled nuclear reactor
Gas core reactor rockets are a conceptual type of rocket that is propelled by the exhausted coolant of a gaseous fission reactor. The nuclear fission
Gas_core_reactor_rocket
Fictional methods, e.g. antigravity, hyperdrive
faster-than-light (FTL), hyperspace, inertialess drive, ion thruster, photon rocket, plasma propulsion engine, Bussard ramjet, R. force, solar sail, spindizzy
Space travel in science fiction
Space_travel_in_science_fiction
Launch of small spacecraft together with larger one
between various orbits to deploy the various payloads. The Photon is a satellite bus designed by Rocket Lab that is a major enhancement to the Kick Stage. It
Secondary_payload
Spacecraft propulsion technology
Ion-propelled aircraft Propulsive fluid accumulator – Self-filling orbital rocket fuel depot Romano, Francesco (January 2022). RF Helicon Plasma Thruster
Atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion
Atmosphere-breathing_electric_propulsion
Rocket engine operation method
The expander cycle is a power cycle of a Bipropellant liquid rocket engine. In this cycle, the fuel is used to cool the engine's combustion chamber, picking
Expander_cycle
Russian and Soviet rocket family
Progress Rocket Space Centre in Samara, Russia. The Soyuz family holds the record for the most launches in the history of spaceflight. Most Soyuz rockets are
Soyuz_(rocket_family)
thruster Thermal rocket Water rocket Steam rocket Solar sail Diffractive Electric sail Magnetic sail Solar thermal rocket Photon rocket WINE Chemical propulsion
Vacuum_arc_thruster
Commercial space launch facility
Retrieved 15 July 2020. "Rocket Lab Debuts HASTE Rocket with First Successful Suborbital Launch from Virginia". Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab. Retrieved 24 October
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
Mid-Atlantic_Regional_Spaceport
Hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion
solar sail-like craft. It is similar in concept to the fission-fragment rocket in that the fission by-products are directly harnessed as working mass,
Fission_sail
Rocket engine operation method
The pressure-fed engine is a class of rocket engine designs. A separate gas supply, usually helium, pressurizes the propellant tanks to force fuel and
Pressure-fed_engine
Ion thruster subtype
(or electrospray thruster) is a type of low thrust electric propulsion rocket engine that uses electrostatic acceleration of charged liquid droplets for
Colloid_thruster
Theoretical spacecraft propulsion system
A solar thermal rocket is a theoretical spacecraft propulsion system that would make use of solar power to directly heat reaction mass, and therefore would
Solar_thermal_rocket
Concept in mathematical physics
region. Robinson–Trautman null dusts include the Kinnersley–Walker photon rocket solutions, which include the Vaidya null dust, which includes the Schwarzschild
Null_dust_solution
Form of beam-powered propulsion
ionizing interstellar gas for propulsion. The basic concepts underlying a photon-propelled "sail" propulsion system were developed by Eugene Sanger and the
Laser_propulsion
Space propulsion system, electrostatic gridded ion thruster
Patterson, M. J.: "Ion Propulsion Development Projects in U. S.: Space Electric Rocket Test 1 to Deep Space 1." Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 17, No. 3
NASA Solar Technology Application Readiness
NASA_Solar_Technology_Application_Readiness
Device claimed to be a propellantless spacecraft thruster
measurements refute all EmDrive claims by at least 3 orders of magnitude." Rocket engines operate by expelling propellant, which acts as a reaction mass and
EmDrive
classic drag device is a sailing vessel. By contrast, an airplane or a rocket use a fuel source to supply their own energy. Gyroradius Magnetic sail,
Plasma_magnet
Markovich Khalatnikov (BKL conjecture), William Morris Kinnersley (photon rocket), Sergiu Klainerman (global stability of Minkowski vacuum), Oskar Klein
List of contributors to general relativity
List_of_contributors_to_general_relativity
Proposed spacecraft propulsion method
after being initially accelerated by other means, for example. a fusion rocket, to a significant fraction of light speed, with a more detailed design published
Magnetic_sail
Type of nuclear thermal rocket
A pulsed nuclear thermal rocket is a type of nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) concept developed at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, and presented
Pulsed_nuclear_thermal_rocket
Exact spherically symmetric solution in GR
be viewed as describing the gravitational field of an accelerating photon rocket with a very badly collimated exhaust. In the special case where λ μ
Vaidya_metric
thruster Thermal rocket Water rocket Steam rocket Solar sail Diffractive Electric sail Magnetic sail Solar thermal rocket Photon rocket WINE Chemical propulsion
MagBeam
Proposed spacecraft propulsion device
ions, whilst a photonic sail is propelled by photons. Thus, the available pressure is only about 1% of photon pressure; however, this may be compensated
Electric_sail
PHOTON ROCKET
PHOTON ROCKET
Male
English
Variant spelling of English unisex Payton, PEYTON means "Pæga's settlement."
Male
Greek
(Φόβος) Greek name PHOBOS means "fear." In mythology, this is the name of a son of Ares. It is also the name of a moon of Mars.
Female
Greek
(Φωτινή) Greek name derived from the word phos, PHOTINE means "light."
Male
Greek
Greek name PHAETON means "the shining one." In mythology, this is the name of one of the steeds of Aurora. The other is Abrax.
Surname or Lastname
English, northern Irish, and Scottish
English, northern Irish, and Scottish : from a pet form of the personal name Pate.The American general George Patton (1885–1945) was born in San Gabriel, CA, into a family with a long military tradition. His earliest American ancestor, Robert Patton, had emigrated from Scotland to VA c.1770.
Surname or Lastname
English and Irish (County Donegal)
English and Irish (County Donegal) : variant spelling of Payton.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Pelton, a place in County Durham, named from an unattested Old English personal name Pēola + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Male
Greek
(Φίλων) Greek name derived from the word phileo, PHILON means "to love."
Male
Greek
(ΠλοÏτων) Greek name derived from the word ploutos, PLOUTON means "wealth." In mythology, this is the name of a god of the underworld.Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a reduced form of Thornton, or a habitational name from Thorton in Marnhull, Dorset, which has the same origin.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly central and northwestern England)
English (mainly central and northwestern England) : habitational name from Hooton in Cheshire, or from Hooton Levitt, Hooton Pagnell, or Hooton Roberts in South Yorkshire, all named with Old English hÅh ‘spur of land’ + tÅ«n ‘farmstead’.See Hooten.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name, probably from a place in Norfolk named Booton, from an Old English personal name (BÅta or BÅ) + tÅ«n ‘settlement’. The present-day concentration of the surname is in the West Midlands and Wales.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Cambridgeshire)
English (mainly Cambridgeshire) : habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire called Panton, from Old English pamp ‘hill’, ‘ridge’ or panne ‘pan’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Whitton.James Whiton of Hingham, Norfolk, England, came to Plymouth, MA, in 1635.
Male
Greek
(Πλάτων) Greek name derived from the word platys, PLATON means "broad, flat; plateau."
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly West Midlands)
English (mainly West Midlands) : habitational name from Peyton in Sussex, named the Old English personal name Pǣga + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, or from some other place similarly named. Peyton in Essex has probably not contributed; it has a quite different early etymology, and even in the 16th century it was still Pakenho or Patenhall.Irish (mainly County Donegal) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Peatáin ‘descendant of Peatán’, a pet form of the personal name Pádraig (see Patrick). Outside County Donegal, the name is apparently mainly of English origin (see 1).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Penton Mewsey, Hampshire, which is named with Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’, i.e. a farmstead paying a penny rent.
Male
Greek
(Φώτιος) Greek name derived from the element phos, PHOTIOS means "light."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a postern gate, from Old French posterne; in some cases it would have been a metonymic occupational name for a gatekeeper.English : habitational name from Poston in Herefordshire or Poston in Shropshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Possa + þorn ‘thorn tree’.
Male
Native American
Native American Miwok name HONON means "bear."
PHOTON ROCKET
PHOTON ROCKET
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
To Announce
Girl/Female
Tamil
Beautiful
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Group of God
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Gaultney. The surname is not found in the U.K.; in the U.S., it is found chiefly in AL.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Blowing Hard, Demon
Male
Serbian
(Стеван) Serbian form of Greek Stephanos, STEVAN means "crown."
Boy/Male
Tamil
Sage, Advisor to Devi Lalita
Female
English
Pet form of English Beatrix, BEE means "voyager (through life)."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the medieval personal name Benedict (Latin Benedictus meaning ‘blessed’). In the 12th century the Latin form of the name is found in England alongside versions derived from the Old French form Beneit, Benoit, which was common among the Normans. See also Benedict.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Master of Yoga Practitioners
PHOTON ROCKET
PHOTON ROCKET
PHOTON ROCKET
PHOTON ROCKET
PHOTON ROCKET
n.
A chiton.
n.
An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.
v. t.
A medicine or mixture; a potion.
n.
A philter or love potion.
pl.
of Photo
n.
One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer.
n.
The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.
a.
A sleeping potion; an opiate.
n.
A South American butterfly (Ithonia phono) having nearly transparent wings.
n.
A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore.
pl.
of Cornet-a-piston
n.
A contraction of Photograph.
pl.
of Phylon
n.
The art or process of making photo-electrotypes.
v. t.
To drug.
pl.
of Phyton