Propulsion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Propulsion is the generation of force by any combination of pushing and/or pulling to modify the translational motion of an object, which is typically a rigid body (or an articulated rigid body) but may also concern a fluid.

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Image: Armadillo Aerospace/Matthew C. Ross, CC BY 3.0 us, via Wikimedia Commons.