0 something that improves or increases something: --
a confidence/morale booster
1 an engine on a spacecraft that gives extra power for the first part of a flight: --
a rocket booster
2 a small amount of a substance that is given to increase the effect of the same substance given some time before, to continue to protect a person from illness: --
a polio booster
3 an action or thing that improves or increases something: --
4 the first stage of a rocket (= object sent into space) that pushes it off the ground --
But even strictly medical concerns such as route of administration, dosages, and booster administrations became subject to diverging opinions.
The animals were test bled on the 4th day following the last booster.
Will the institutions bioethicists inhabit and their sources of funding reshape their role from intellectual gadfly to commercial booster?
Architects often like to perceive themselves as boosters of innovation.
He provides collocational data for both boosters and maximisers.
Long-term monitoring of women currently participating in the vaccine trials will be needed to determine whether and when a booster should be given.
Five doses of tetanus vaccine give adequate immunity and routine 10-yearly boosters are no longer recommended [5].
The pulse is then guided to the booster section with a 45 mm and a 64 mm amplifier.
