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Definition of Airplane propeller
1. Noun. A propeller that rotates to push against air.
Generic synonyms: Propeller, Propellor
Group relationships: Propeller Plane
Lexicographical Neighbors of Airplane Propeller
Literary usage of Airplane propeller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The A-B-C of Aviation: A Complete, Practical Treatise Outlining Clearly the by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1918)
"... VIII airplane propeller CONSTRUCTION AND ACTION When Screw Works in Air—Mathematical
Consideration of Propeller Pitch— Propeller Definitions—Propeller ..."
2. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1919)
"... which all combined, so that although the general theory might bring the two
together and reconcile the airplane propeller and the water propeller, ..."
3. America's Part in the World War: A History of the Full Greatness of Our by Richard Joseph Beamish, Francis Andrew March (1919)
"In three years of warfare the Allies developed only a single machine which could
be synchronized to fire through a revolving airplane propeller. ..."
4. Textbook of Applied Aeronautic Engineering by Henry Woodhouse (1920)
"Efficiency of the Propeller It must be understood that the efficiency of an
airplane propeller is absolutely dependent upon its speed of advance through the ..."
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