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Definition of Hydrofoils
1. hydrofoil [n] - See also: hydrofoil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrofoils
Literary usage of Hydrofoils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"Pressure distributions and cavitation inception studies on: hydrofoils, fins,
fairings, ship appendages, submerged bodies, etc. ..."
2. Italian Lakes by Richard Sale (2006)
"The services are mainly modern diesel ferry boats, with a number of the more
exciting hydrofoils (aliscafo) which reduce crossing times for a price ..."
3. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution by Smithsonian Institution (1921)
"It was found in the early experiments that when the planes or hydrofoils were
... Furthermore, it was found that the dihedral angle of the hydrofoils ..."
4. Coalescence by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"They fly, ride like hydrofoils and take-off like hydrofoils. The ship is ROUND
in shape and looks exactly like any good old UFO. ..."
5. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"... company formed last year by the Inchcape Group and Wallace Bros., to give
Britain a foothold in the rapidly expanding market for high-speed hydrofoils. ..."
6. Russian Defense Business Directory: St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblastedited by Franklin J. Carvalho edited by Franklin J. Carvalho (1998)
"It also built hydrofoils of the Matka and Turya classes and the Tarantul- class
missile corvettes. Today it is offering several types of ships on the civil ..."
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