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sput•nik



Pronunciation: (spoot'nik, sput'-; Russ. spOOt'nyik), [key]
—n.
(sometimes cap.) any of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting satellites: Sputnik I was the world's first space satellite.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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