Shuttle
The original meaning of the word shuttle is the device used in weaving to carry the weft. By reference to the continual to-and-fro motion associated with that, the term was then applied in transportation and then in other spheres. Thus the word may now also refer to:
Transportation
- Spacecraft
- Buran (spacecraft), the vehicle for the Soviet space shuttle program
- Space Shuttle, the vehicle for the NASA space program from 1981 to 2011
- Shuttlecraft, any smaller spacecraft, usually capable of atmospheric transport
- Air transportation
- Land transportation
- A public transport system operating at frequent intervals on a short, (mostly) non-stop route between two places
- Eurotunnel Shuttle, the car-carrying trains used in the Channel Tunnel
- Shuttle van, a New Zealand term for shared taxis
Sciences and technology
- Molecular shuttles, a molecule capable of nanoscale transportation
- Shuttle vector, vector that shuttles between species, biochemistry, genetics
- Shuttle machinery, as used in extrusion blow molding
- Shuttle bombing, a World War II strategic bombing tactic
- MPW shuttle, an integrated circuit production run for multi-chip or multi-project wafers
Media
Other
- Shuttle Inc., a manufacturer of small form factor computers
- Shuttlecock or birdie, the object batted back and forth in badminton
- River Shuttle, a river of southeast London, England
- USS Shuttle (SP-3572), a United States navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919
- Shuttle (compact disc player), a device that holds multiple compact music discs which is then inserted into a multi-disc player.
- Shuttle (Seminconductor Wafer Fabrication), a tray used to contain multiple wafers during production which allows them to be plated.