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Definition of Aeroplane
1. Noun. An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets. "The flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
Examples of category: Circumnavigation, Defroster, Deicer, Dip Circle, Inclinometer, Roll-on Roll-off, Log, Place, Seat, Highjacker, Hijacker, Passenger, Rider, Drift, Leeway, Atomic Number 22, Ti, Titanium, Prang, Hunt, Astern
Terms within: Accelerator, Accelerator Pedal, Gas, Gas Pedal, Gun, Throttle, Escape Hatch, Fuselage, Bonnet, Cowl, Cowling, Hood, Landing Gear, Navigation Light, Fuel Pod, Pod, Radar Dome, Radome, Windscreen, Windshield, Wing
Specialized synonyms: Airliner, Amphibian, Amphibious Aircraft, Biplane, Bomber, Delta Wing, Attack Aircraft, Fighter, Fighter Aircraft, Hangar Queen, Jet, Jet Plane, Jet-propelled Plane, Monoplane, Multiengine Airplane, Multiengine Plane, Propeller Plane, Reconnaissance Plane, Hydroplane, Seaplane, Ski-plane, Tanker Plane
Generic synonyms: Heavier-than-air Craft
Definition of Aeroplane
1. Noun. (Australia New Zealand South Africa British) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of aeroplane) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aeroplane
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aeroplane
Literary usage of Aeroplane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"aeroplane stability and stabilizers Automatic and Inherent stability of ...
Sei Am S 75:112 Plan of aeroplane: reply to Mr. Hanna G 20 '13 Repelling ..."
2. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"A curred aeroplane with means for changing its curvature and provided with a flu .
... An aeroplane device, comprising plural aeroplanes, one in advance of ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In flight, the weight of the aeroplane is supported by the reaction between ...
If, for example, an aeroplane were incapable of being made to swerve at will ..."
4. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"The Farman aeroplane. A résumé of the flights made with the machine that won ...
The Record Flight of the Delagrange aeroplane. An illustrated account of ..."
5. A Treatise on Gyrostatics and Rotational Motion: Theory and Applications by Andrew Gray (1918)
"The aeroplane may be maintained more or less nearly level by means of the tilting
planes; but it is to be remembered that if it is so maintained large ..."
6. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1915)
"aeroplane falls, Lieuts. Faber and Kurtz killed. My 8 My 8 My Lieut. ... Je 26
Hydro-aeroplane engine bursts, Deroy Cevasco drowned. ..."
7. Textbook of Naval Aeronautics by Henry Woodhouse (1917)
"(9) Mechanicians will not touch any part of an aeroplane or its equipment to which
... Record of each flight and total hours; record of work on aeroplane. ..."
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