Definition of Airships

1. Noun. (plural of airship) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Airships

1. airship [n] - See also: airship

Lexicographical Neighbors of Airships

airproofing
airproofs
airs
airs out
airsacculitis
airscape
airscapes
airscoop
airscrew
airscrews
airshaft
airshafts
airshed
airsheds
airship
airships (current term)
airshot
airshots
airshow
airshower
airshowers
airshows
airsick
airsickness
airsicknesses
airside
airsides
airsoft
airspace
airspace-filling pattern

Literary usage of Airships

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

1. Aircraft Year Book by Manufacturers Aircraft Association (1920)
"... BALLOONS AND airships, 1914-1919 THE technical development of aerostats — which ... The ability of airships to regulate their flying speed and to extend ..."

2. Wireless Telegraphy by Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck (1915)
"Ungrounded Antennae for airships.161—a. The following forms of antennae have been used among others, for airships, where grounding of any kind is entirely ..."

3. Practical Aeronautics: An Understandable Presentation of Interesting and by Charles Brian Hayward (1912)
"A year or two ago, the big Zeppelin rigid airships could not rise high enough to be considered a source of danger from a military point of view, ..."

4. Science of Home and Community: A Text-book in General Science by Gilbert Haven Trafton (1919)
"During the European War frequent references were made in the newspapers to the use that was being made of airplanes and airships, especially of the ..."

5. Aircraft in War by Eric Stuart Bruce (1914)
"CHAPTER III TYPES OF MODERN airships WITH the new century came the modern military ... In considering the airships of Great Britain, France, and Germany, ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... brought forth from' his floating laboratory on Lake Constance the first of his airships. Aeroplane, The.* The art of aeroplane flight presents two main ..."

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