SHUTTLE

The word 'shuttle' can have several meanings. In general, it is something which travels back and forth between places in a regular and relatively frequent manner.

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Textiles

Transportation

Other

References & Notes

Textiles

★ Shuttle (weaving), a device used in weaving to carry the weft. This is the original meaning.

★ A spindle-shaped device holding the thread in tatting or knotting

Transportation

★ The Space Shuttle program, or

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★ The Space Shuttle vehicle concerned.

★ A public transport system operating at frequent intervals on a short route. Also, the vehicle or route of the shuttle.

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★ The New York City Subway shuttles

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★ ''Shuttle vans'' a New Zealand term for shared taxis

★ Le Shuttle, the car carrying trains used in the Channel Tunnel

★ Molecular shuttles: nanoscale transportation

Other

★ Shuttle Inc. produces small form factor computers.

★ Shuttlecock, the object batted back and forth in badminton.

★ Shuttle (biochemistry)

★ Shuttle machinery, as used in extrusion blow molding.

★ Shuttle (game), a computer game produced by Virgin.

★ River Shuttle, a river of southeast London England.

★ 'shuttle bombing', such as during WWII's Operation Frantic, Operation Bellicose and the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission, in which all or part of a mission landed at a different field and later bombed another target. Campaign Diary
July 1944

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