IN FLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in flight mean? 

• IN FLIGHT (adverb)
  The adverb IN FLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. flying through the air

  Familiarity information: IN FLIGHT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN FLIGHT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flying through the air

Synonyms:

in flight; on the wing

Context example:

we saw the ducks in flight

 Context examples 

The noise he made was too much for the moose-bird, who sought safety in flight.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

My only possible chance lay in flight.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The feathers' structure suggests that they were not used in flight but rather for temperature regulation or display.

(Scientists find dinosaur feathers preserved in amber, Wikinews)

Serrated leading-edges reduce aerodynamic performance at lower AoAs than 15° compared to clean leading-edges, but can achieve noise reduction and aerodynamic performance at AoAs above 15°, which owl wings often reach in flight.

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

Past, present, and future mingled; and he went on oscillating across the broad, warm world, through high adventure and noble deeds to Her—ay, and with her, winning her, his arm about her, and carrying her on in flight through the empery of his mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Just as he caught the swing of them and started, his imagination attuned in flight, always they vanished away in a chaotic scramble of sounds that was meaningless to him, and that dropped his imagination, an inert weight, back to earth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)