HELICOPTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does helicopter mean? 

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

1. an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELICOPTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chopper; eggbeater; helicopter; whirlybird

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

heavier-than-air craft (a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it)

Meronyms (parts of "helicopter"):

blade; vane (flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water)

landing skid (one of two parts of the landing gear of a helicopter)

rotor (rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils)

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

cargo helicopter (a helicopter that carries cargo)

shuttle helicopter (a helicopter that shuttles back and forth)

single-rotor helicopter (a helicopter having a single rotor)

skyhook (helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects)

 Context examples 

EXAMPLE(S): ambulance, helicopter, manufacturing site, service delivery location, home, emergency department, surgical suite, patient room.

(Place, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

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

(Flight Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

The first is that helicopters frequently fly in and out of the Dry Valleys to transport researchers and scientific cargo into the field.

(Antarctic lakes are a repository for ancient soot, NSF)

For example, Moore's team found that a helicopter flying close to an arch in Utah's Bryce Canyon caused the arch to vibrate with an amplitude one hundred times greater than normal.

(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)

An airborne electromagnetic (AEM) sensor, called SkyTEM, mounted to the helicopter, allowed the team to discover that brines—salty water—form extensive aquifers below glaciers, lakes and within permanently frozen soils.

(Discovered deep under Antarctic surface: Extensive, salty aquifer and potentially vast microbial habitat, NSF)

In the study, the researchers differentiated between black carbon produced elsewhere in the world and carried by winds to the Dry Valleys and black carbon produced by local combustion sources, such as helicopter flights, combustion toilets and other fossil fuel-intensive activities associated with Dry Valleys field camps.

(Soot transported from elsewhere in world contributes little to melting of some Antarctic glaciers, National Science Foundation)

To modernize its military, in 2018, Hungary licensed Czech firearm technology and started assembling firearms in Kiskunfélegyháza, then agreed with Airbus to open a helicopter parts factory as a joint venture in Gyula.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)