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aeronautics

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Word definitions for aeronautics in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aeronautics \A`["e]r*o*naut"ics\, n. The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; a["e]rial navigation; ballooning. [1913 Webster] ||

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Aeronautics is the second album by the German power metal band Masterplan . It's the first album to feature playing and songwriting by members Axel Mackenrott (keyboards) and Iron Savior bassist Jan S. Eckert , who both joined the band shortly after the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The design, construction, mathematics and mechanics of aircraft and other flying objects 2 The theory and practice of aircraft navigation

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1824, from aeronautic (1784), from French aéronautique , from aéro- (see aero- ) + nautique "of ships," from Latin nauticus , from Greek nautikos (see nautical ). Originally of balloons. Also see -ics . Aeronaut "balloonist" is from 1784.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the theory and practice of navigation through air or space [syn: astronautics ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By 1935 he had joined the Pasadena Junior College as Professor in charge of aeronautics . ▪ He launched into bus production and truck transport, before expanding to aeronautics . ▪ It stems from some one trying to apply a basic ...

Usage examples of aeronautics.

Kurt, like the greater number of the men upon the German air-fleet, had known hardly anything of aeronautics before his appointment to the new flag-ship.

There Tom told how the Red Cloud came to be built, and of his first trip in the air, while, on the opposite side, Miss Delafield lectured to the entire school on aeronautics, as she thought she knew them.

US National Aeronautics and Space Administration to make visual observations of large artificial satellites passing overhead.

What they wanted was not a limited, academic type of inquiry such as they expected to be made by the Condon team, but a country-wide effort involving the resources of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Weather control is now in the fine finished state that aeronautics was in 1906.

Government subsidies necessary to sustain a virtually customerless Mospheiran aeronautics industry had been cut by the legislature in a general protest against taxes two presidential elections back, and the human aerospace workers had gone to other jobs.

The institute was a thoroughly modern and up-to-date facility, in keeping with the modern and up-to-date subjects taught within its walls: electricity and electronics, mechanics, plumbing, recycling and reclamation, construction, carpentry, accounting and bookkeeping, secretarial skills, data recording, computer programming and repair, cybernation maintenance, aeronautics, solar-cell construction, electrical generating, motion-picture projection, camera operation, audio recording, hydrogen-fusion operation, power broadcasting, electrical space propulsion, satellite construction and repair, telemetry, and many more.

Nathan Twining of the AAF and then USAF Air Material Command Professor Donald Menzel, Harvard astronomer and Naval Intelligence cryptography expert Vannevar Bush, Joint Research and Development Board Chairman Detlev Bronk, Chairman of the National Research Council and biologist who would ultimately be named to the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics.

Umberto Alcazar-Diaz, visiting professor of astrogeology at the University of Sao Paulo, director general of Site A, and, not incidentally, also a research fellow at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston, had just taken off his glasses and settled back for a nap.

Kurt, like the greater number of the men upon the German air-fleet, had known hardly anything of aeronautics before his appointment to the new flag-ship.

There Tom told how the Red Cloud came to be built, and of his first trip in the air, while, on the opposite side, Miss Delafield lectured to the entire school on aeronautics, as she thought she knew them.

Visitors to Philadelphia may see the famous Liberty Bell, which was built in 1776 for the fledgling American republic by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, but which never really rang right because of a crack.

Professor Umberto Alcazar-Diaz, visiting professor of astrogeology at the University of Sao Paulo, director general of Site A, and, not incidentally, also a research fellow at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston, had just taken off his glasses and settled back for a nap.

There were sedans and station wagons, some Air Force blue, others the white of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

For instance, in 1976 Robert Vessot and Martin Levine of the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, together with collaboraters at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), launched a Scout D rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia, that carried an atomic clock accurate to about a trillionth of a second per hour.