Definition of Nacelles

1. Noun. (plural of nacelle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nacelles

1. nacelle [n] - See also: nacelle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nacelles

nabobships
nabokoite
naboom
naboot
naboots
nabothian cyst
nabothian follicle
nabothian gland
nabs
nabumetone
nac
nacaphite
nacarat
nacarats
nacelle
nacelles (current term)
nach
nachas
nache
naches
nacho
nachos
nack
nacked
nacker
nacket
nackets
nacking
nacks
nacolomab tafenatox

Literary usage of Nacelles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics: Foundation for the Future by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"C19 Advanced engine nacelle structures Engine nacelles ... nacelles enclose the jet engine and pylons provide means for mounting the engine on the airframe. ..."

2. Aeroplane Structures by Alfred John Sutton Pippard, John Laurence (1919)
"The lift upon the wings and the loading upon the spars are found in exactly the same way as for a single engine aeroplane, but at the engine nacelles there ..."

3. The Romance of Aircraft by Laurence Yard Smith (1919)
"motors are carried in two smaller cars or bodies called " nacelles " at either ... It carries its two 12-cylinder Rolls- Royce engines in small nacelles ..."

4. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"For the more elaborate cars, or "nacelles", of dirigibles, they prove less suitable, it being difficult to make such elongated structures as this type ..."

5. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"For the more elaborate cars, or "nacelles", of dirigibles, they prove less suitable, ... The nacelles of several typical ..."

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