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Definition of Elevon
1. Noun. a moveable surface at the trailing edge of a tailless airplane (such as the space shuttle) that provides pitch and roll control ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elevon
1. a type of airplane control surface [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elevon
Literary usage of Elevon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"There are elevon parish churches in the city :—St Helen's, the oldest, was rebuilt
in 1820; St Albans, ancient, partially restored in 1850 ; All Saints, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1847)
"An insect with elevon legs is swimming in your tea-cup, a nondescript with nine
wings is struggling in the small-beer, or a caterpillar with several dozen ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1876)
"... she haveing her hand upon his shoulder, about elevon hours in the forenoon,
and that he never saw any other ill appearance betwixt her and him. Sic sub. ..."
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