booster : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: booster	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for booster
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
booster n a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" Synonym(s): supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend someone who is an active supporter and advocate Synonym(s): promoter, booster, plugger a thief who steals goods that are in a store Synonym(s): booster, shoplifter, lifter an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal Synonym(s): booster, booster amplifier, booster station, relay link, relay station, relay transmitter the first stage of a multistage rocket Synonym(s): booster, booster rocket, booster unit, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective Synonym(s): booster, booster dose, booster shot, recall dose
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Booster \Boost"er\, n. (Elec.) An instrument for regulating the electro-motive force in an alternating-current circuit; -- so called because used to [bd]boost[b8], or raise, the pressure in the circuit.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Booster A {data-parallel} language. "The Booster Language", E. Paalvast, TR PL 89-ITI-B-18, Inst voor Toegepaste Informatica TNO, Delft, 1989.