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Literal meaning is "change in velocity". The quantity has utility in rocketry as measure of the change in velocity that a reaction engine must produce to move into a given trajectory. The rocket equation establishes that the mass ratio of payload to initial mass is an exponential function of delta-v divided by the propellant velocity.

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