transonic
- a (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level
- The "transonic" (transition) speed is the worst.
- It must pass through the dangerous transonic band without being thrown out of control or damaged by buffeting.
- By 1950, the year he got his doctorate from Columbia with a "secret" thesis on "transonic flows past thin airfoils," it began to look as though William Perl was associating with .