soft landing

English

Noun

soft landing (countable and uncountable, plural soft landings)

(countable, aeronautics) A landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload and/or the vehicle.
(countable, economics) A business cycle downturn which avoids recession.
(uncountable, chemistry) A form of mass spectrometry characterized by deposition of intact species on surfaces at low kinetic energies which precludes the fragmentation of the incident species.

Translations

landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload and/or the vehicle

Catalan: aterratge suau m
Dutch: zachte landing f
French: atterrissage en douceur (fr) m
German: weiche Landung f
Italian: atterraggio morbido m
Russian: мя́гкая поса́дка (ru) (mjáxkaja posádka)
Spanish: aterrizaje suave m
Ukrainian: м'яка́ поса́дка (mʺjaká posádka)

See also

hard landing

Verb

soft landing

present participle of soft land

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