AIRCRAFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aircraft mean? 

• AIRCRAFT (noun)
  The noun AIRCRAFT has 1 sense:

1. a vehicle that can fly

  Familiarity information: AIRCRAFT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIRCRAFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vehicle that can fly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("aircraft" is a kind of...):

craft (a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space)

Meronyms (parts of "aircraft"):

bay (a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose)

cabin (the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried)

cockpit (compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft)

aircraft engine (the engine that powers and aircraft)

fuel system (equipment in a motor vehicle or aircraft that delivers fuel to the engine)

nose (a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft))

frame; skeletal frame; skeleton; underframe (the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape)

skin (an outer surface (usually thin))

Domain member category:

touch down (come or bring (a plane) to a landing)

sweptwing ((of an aircraft) having sweptback wings)

aviate; fly; pilot (operate an airplane)

heavier-than-air (relating to an aircraft heavier than the air it displaces)

lighter-than-air (relating to a balloon or other aircraft that flies because it weighs less than the air it displaces)

sweptback ((especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment)

fly-by; flyover; flypast (a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground)

blackout; brownout; dimout (darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft))

airplane pilot; pilot (someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight)

driftage (the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting)

destabilization (an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft))

stabilisation; stabilization (the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn)

crop-dusting; spraying (the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft))

crash landing (an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aircraft"):

bogey; bogie; bogy (an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft)

cruise missile (an unmanned aircraft that is a self-contained bomb)

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)

stealth aircraft (an aircraft designed in accordance with technology that makes detection by radar difficult)

Holonyms ("aircraft" is a member of...):

fleet (group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership)

 Context examples 

They also measured methane with an aircraft flying across the entire Amazon basin in order to also calculate emissions at a large scale.

(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)

These owl-inspired leading edge serrations, if applied to wind turbine blades, aircraft wings or drone rotors, could provide a useful biomimetic design for flow control and noise reduction.

(Owls' Wings Key to Beating Wind Turbine Noise, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An accident taking place aboard, or involving, any type of aircraft.

(Aircraft Accident, NCI Thesaurus)

Beryllium-aluminum alloy is mainly used in light aircraft construction.

(Beryllium-Aluminum Alloy, NCI Thesaurus)

The provision of emergency or supportive nursing care to patients transported by helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft.

(Flight Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

In this study, we had thousands of measurements of snow depth on sea ice to thoroughly validate NASA's aircraft observations.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)

The 29-day deployment ended May 6 when the aircraft returned to its base in Palmdale, California, after 19 flights totaling 97 hours in the air.

(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)

Acrylonitrile is widely used in industry to produce rubber, resins, plastics, elastomers and synthetic fibers and to manufacture carbon fibers used in aircraft, defense and aerospace industries.

(Acrylonitrile, NCI Thesaurus)

NASA has achieved a significant milestone in its effort to make supersonic passenger jet travel over land a real possibility by completing the preliminary design review (PDR) of its Quiet Supersonic Transport or QueSST aircraft design.

(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)

Additionally, within the monument expansion area, there are shipwrecks and downed aircraft from the Battle of Midway in World War II, a battle that marked a major shift in the progress of the war in favor of the Allies.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)