Definition of Aeroplane

1. Noun. An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets. "The flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"


Definition of Aeroplane

1. Noun. (Australia New Zealand South Africa British) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings. ¹

2. Noun. (alternative spelling of aeroplane) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aeroplane

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aeroplane

aerophile
aerophilic
aerophilous
aerophobe
aerophobes
aerophobia
aerophoby
aerophone
aerophones
aerophore
aerophores
aerophysics
aerophyte
aerophytes
aeropiesotherapy
aeroplane
aeroplanes
aeroplankton
aeroplethysmograph
aeropleustic
aeroponic
aeroponics
aeroport
aeroports
aeropulse
aeropulses
aeros
aerosat
aerosats
aeroscope

Literary usage of Aeroplane

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

1. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Aeroplane stability and stabilizers Automatic and Inherent stability of ... Sei Am S 75:112 Plan of aeroplane: reply to Mr. Hanna G 20 '13 Repelling ..."

2. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"A curred aeroplane with means for changing its curvature and provided with a flu . ... An aeroplane device, comprising plural aeroplanes, one in advance of ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In flight, the weight of the aeroplane is supported by the reaction between ... If, for example, an aeroplane were incapable of being made to swerve at will ..."

4. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"The Farman Aeroplane. A résumé of the flights made with the machine that won ... The Record Flight of the Delagrange Aeroplane. An illustrated account of ..."

5. A Treatise on Gyrostatics and Rotational Motion: Theory and Applications by Andrew Gray (1918)
"The aeroplane may be maintained more or less nearly level by means of the tilting planes; but it is to be remembered that if it is so maintained large ..."

6. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1915)
"Aeroplane falls, Lieuts. Faber and Kurtz killed. My 8 My 8 My Lieut. ... Je 26 Hydro-aeroplane engine bursts, Deroy Cevasco drowned. ..."

7. Textbook of Naval Aeronautics by Henry Woodhouse (1917)
"(9) Mechanicians will not touch any part of an aeroplane or its equipment to which ... Record of each flight and total hours; record of work on aeroplane. ..."

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