(aerospace engineering) The fore and aft configuration used in boosted missiles, long-range ballistic missiles, and satellite vehicles; stages are stacked together in series and are discarded at burnout of the propellant for each stage.
(electricity) Two-terminal pair networks are in tandem when the output terminals of one network are directly connected to the input terminals of the other network.

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