jet airplane (noun)
41gust tunnel — noun : an enclosed space within which a jet of air is made to impinge upon an airplane model in free flight for investigating the effects of atmospheric gusts upon the flight of airplanes * * * gust tunnel, a crude wind tunnel with a large cross… …
42tail pipe — noun 1. : the suction pipe of a pump 2. : the pipe discharging into the atmosphere the exhaust gases from the muffler of an automotive engine 3. : the part of a jet engine that carries the exhaust gases rearward and discharges them through a… …
43thrust horsepower — noun 1. : the actual horsepower delivered by the engine propeller unit in an airplane and found less than brake horsepower because the propeller is never 100 percent efficient 2. : the thrust of a jet engine or a rocket expressed in horsepower… …
44turbine-propeller engine — noun : an airplane propulsion system in which a turbine drives a compressor and a propeller with thrust being derived from the propeller and also from the exhaust jet of the turbine …
45technology, history of — Introduction the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… …
46United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
47golf — golfer, n. /golf, gawlf/; Brit. also /gof/, n. 1. a game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, usually 9 or 18, in succession, situated at various distances over a course having… …
48Compound (linguistics) — In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding or composition is the word formation that creates compound lexemes (the other word formation process being derivation). Compounding… …
49air|plane — «AIR PLAYN; uh PLAYN; see note below», noun, verb, planed, plan|ing. –n. U.S. a flying machine that has one or more planes or wings and is driven by one or more propellers or jet engines or a rocket engine. An airplane is an aircraft heavier than …
50Flight attendant — Flight attendants or cabin crew (historically known as stewards, air hosts/hostesses, or stewardesses) are members of an aircrew employed by airlines to ensure the safety and comfort of the passengers aboard commercial flights as well as on… …
