air·craft (âr kr ft )n. pl. aircraft A machine or device, such as an airplane, helicopter, glider, or dirigible, that is capable of atmospheric flight. |
aircraft [ˈɛəˌkrɑːft]
n pl -craft
(Engineering / Aeronautics) any machine capable of flying by means of buoyancy or aerodynamic forces, such as a glider, helicopter, or aeroplane
Aircraft flying machines collectively, 1850.
See: inactive aircraft inventory; program aircraft; reserve aircraft; supporting aircraft; unit aircraft.
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| Noun | 1. |  aircraft - a vehicle that can fly fly-by, flypast, flyover - a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground crash landing - an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft) crop-dusting, spraying - the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) stabilisation, stabilization - the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn aircraft engine - the engine that powers and aircraft bay - a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose; "he opened the bomb bay" cabin - the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried cockpit - compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft craft - a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space cruise missile - an unmanned aircraft that is a self-contained bomb fuel system - equipment in a motor vehicle or aircraft that delivers fuel to the engine heavier-than-air craft - a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it lighter-than-air craft - aircraft supported by its own buoyancy nose - a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft); "the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry" skeletal frame, underframe, skeleton, frame - the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton" skin - an outer surface (usually thin); "the skin of an airplane" stealth aircraft - an aircraft designed in accordance with technology that makes detection by radar difficult destabilization - an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft) driftage - the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting fleet - group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership airplane pilot, pilot - someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight brownout, dimout, blackout - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) touch down - come or bring (a plane) to a landing; "the plane touched down at noon" |
aircraft
noun plane, jet, aeroplane, airplane, airliner (U.S. & Canad.), kite (Brit. slang), flying machine The return flight of the aircraft was delayed. see aviation terms
Aircraft
Types of Aircraft aerodyne, aerostat, airliner, airship, amphibian, autogiro or autogyro, balloon, biplane, blimp, bomber, canard, coleopter, convertiplane, convertaplane, or convertoplane, cyclogiro, delta-wing, dirigible, dive bomber, drone, fighter, fighter-bomber, flying boat, flying wing, freighter, gas-filled balloon, glider, gyrodyne, hang-glider, helicopter, helicopter gunship, hot-air balloon, interceptor or intercepter, jet or jet plane, jetliner, jumbo jet, jump jet, lifting body, light aircraft, microlight or microlite, monoplane, multiplane, night fighter, ornithopter or orthopter, rotaplane, sailplane, seaplane, skiplane, Stealth bomber or Stealth plane, STOL, swept-wing, swing-wing, tanker, triplane, troop carrier, turbofan, turbojet, turboprop or propjet, VTOL, warplane, wing, zeppelin
Aircraft Parts aerofoil, aerometeorograph, aerostructure, afterburner, aileron, airframe, air-intake, airlock, air scoop, airscrew, all-flying tail, altimeter, anti-icer, arrester, artificial horizon, astrodome or astrohatch, athodyd, autopilot, auxiliary power unit, basket, black box, blister, body, bomb bay, bombsight, bulkhead, cabin, canopy, cantilever, capsule, chassis, clamshell, cockpit, control column or control stick, cowling or cowl, dashboard, drop tank, ejection seat, elevator, elevon, empennage, engine, engine pod, fairing, fin, flap, flight deck, flight recorder, fuel tank, fuselage, galley, gondola, heat sink, hold, horn or horn balance, hydroplane, inclinometer, instrument panel, jet engine, jet pipe, joystick, keel, landing gear, landing light, launching shoe or launch shoe, longeron, main plane, nacelle, nose, nose wheel, Pitot tube, pod, propeller, pulsejet, pusher, pylon, ramjet or ramjet engine, rotor, rudder, slat, slinger ring, spinner, spoiler, stabilizer, tab, tail, tailplane, tailskid, tail wheel, trailing edge, trim tab, turret, undercarriage, waist, wing, winglet, wing tip
Translations
aircraft [ˈɛəkrɑːft]
aircraft [ˈɛərkrɑːft] [aircraft] (pl) n → avion m
aircraft carrier n → porte-avions m inv
aircraft hangar n → hangar m à avions
aircraft carrier n → porte-avions m inv
aircraft hangar n → hangar m à avions
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