costates

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A form of costate — Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of costate

    On the other hand the initial costates are assessed analytically from the initial conditions and they can be used as initial guess for transfers at different thrust levels.

    2016, Max Cerf, “Optimal Thrust Level for Orbit Insertion”, in arXiv
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of costate
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