falcon

Phonetic

US /ˈfælkən/UK /ˈfɔːlkən/

Translations

NOUNAny bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey., A female such bird, a male being a tiercel., A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century; a falconet.
VERBTo hunt with a falcon or falcons.
PROPNA surname., A place name:

Variants

  • falcons: Third Person Singular, Plural
  • falconing: Present Participle
  • falconed: Past Participle, Past Tense

Examples

  • The Alpha rocket is capable of hauling a payload of up to 2,270 pounds (1,030 kilograms) to low-Earth orbit, putting Firefly's launcher in a performance class above Rocket Lab's Electron booster and below larger rockets like SpaceX's Falcon 9.

    Source:arstechnica.com

  • The first game's story involved the Peregrine Falcon (PF) Squad, a small but skilled team of soldiers serving under the Regular Army's special operations division, who fight against the army of General Donald Morden in order to prevent a massive coup d'état and the creation of a New World Order.

    Source:en.wikipedia.org

  • reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

    Source:cn.nytimes.com

  • Intel won’t bring its Falcon Shores AI chip to market

    Source:techcrunch.com

  • falcon: use *model-local* eval & scratch bufs (

    Source:github.com

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