英:['æstrəʊɡət]
美:['æstroʊɡət]
英:['æstrəʊɡət]
美:['æstroʊɡət]
verb
transitive verb
to guide (such as a spaceship or rocket) in interplanetary flight
intransitive verb
to navigate in space
astr- + -gate (as in navigate)
1 By virtue of being his own pilot, he was obliged to astrogate by rule-of-thumb and occasional directive spurts from the course-calculator.
2 Deck space, however, was at such a premium because of the controls, acceleration couches, and astrogating equipment that the hatch was the largest clear area.
3 Two measly weeks out, two weeks to astrogate her back home.
4 With you to astrogate us, we may have a chance.
5 And now you come along and tell us that we can get him to astrogate us out to Tara!
6 On the Med Ship there'd not been a single reference to Weald except as an object toward which the Med Ship was being astrogated.