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supercavitation
The use of cavitation effects to create a large bubble of gas inside a liquid, allowing an object to travel at great speed through the liquid by being wholly enveloped by the bubble.
The cavity (the bubble) reduces the drag on the object and this makes supercavitation an advantageous technology
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-ation, -ization (-iz[e] + -ation); -isation (British spelling variation)
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cav-, cavo-, cava-, cavi-, cavern-
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super-, supra-, sur-
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