Booster

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Healthcare› Medicine

Cancer

In medicine, refers to a vaccination given after a previous vaccination. A booster helps maintain or increase a protective immune response.

Technology

Defense

An auxiliary or initial propulsion system that travels with a missile or aircraft and that may or may not separate from the parent craft when its impulse has been delivered. A booster system may contain or consist of one or more units.

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