tail fin

tail fin also tail·fin (t

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1. A fin at the posterior part of the body of a fish, crustacean, whale, or other aquatic animal.

2. An ornamental projection shaped like a fin on the rear fender of an automobile. Also called fin¹.

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Noun	1.	tail fin - a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane tailfin, vertical fin, vertical stabiliser, vertical stabilizer stabilizer - airfoil consisting of a device for stabilizing an aircraft vertical tail - the vertical airfoil in the tail assembly of an aircraft
	2.	tail fin - one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile fin, tailfin auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine - a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" decoration, ornament, ornamentation - something used to beautify
	3.	tail fin - the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates caudal fin fin - organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals heterocercal fin - a tail fin with unequal lobes in which the vertebral column turns upward into the larger lobe as in sharks homocercal fin - symmetrical tail fin extending beyond the end of the vertebral column as in most bony fishes fish - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"

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anal fin
anisocercal
Architeuthis
caudal fin
crucian
fin
giant squid
heterocercal fin
homocercal fin
ichthyosaur
Loligo
ommastrephes
Seriola dorsalis
SQUID
stabilizer
stenopterygius
Stenopterygius quadrisicissus
tailfin
vertical fin

A tail fin is place behind the blades similar in look to an aircraft tail fin, as the wind passes either side of the fin it will keep the blades facing into wind.

How Does a Wind Turbine Work? by Cristian Stan / Environmental issues community

Tail fin found The search for the black box received a boost earlier on Monday when Brazilian navy divers recovered the tail fin of the Airbus A330 jet.

Confirmed Air France toll mounts by Aljazeera.net

Ichthyostega, which has robust limbs and only a small tail fin, appears to be the more terrestrial of the two.

Earliest backboned land animals had different life histories by Asian News International