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It turns up at the edge of a plane
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winglet
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Word definitions for winglet in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (diminutive of wing English) 2 (context aeronautics English) A winglike structure at a wingtip set at an angle to the plane of the wing designed to reduce drag by its effect on wingtip vortex.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Winglet \Wing"let\, n. A little wing; a very small wing. (Zo["o]l.) A bastard wing, or alula.
Usage examples of winglet.
Ecu, who knew all about gravity, could not help but flip a winglet in reaction.
Skylark whose glistening winglets ascending Quiver like pulses beneath the melodious dawn?
Circleting the surface to meet his mirrored winglets, Fleeter she seems in her stay than in her flight.
Cocytan resting position, prone on its back, winglets outspread to both sides.
The Airbus A330 and the Boeing 777 are almost identical in length and wingspan, but the Airbus has winglets, and the end of the fuselage on the 777 looks like a flathead screwdriver.
The Airbus A320 has tiny up-and-down winglets at the end of its wings, and the end of the fuselage extends out longer behind the tailfin than in the Boeing airplanes.
Note that the MD-11 has winglets at the end of its wings and is longer than the DC-10.
The missile, at range to the target indicating half a kilometer, pulled up on the winglets and climbed for the sky.
The missile nose-cone video camera saw only the heavens above as the missile climbed, and when the altitude indicated a height of 1500 meters the winglets rotated to send the missile plummeting down over the target.
State-of-the-art wings exhibit pure aerodynamic form, with winglets and other fantastic curves.
The backbone, and the winglets and odds-and-ends went for stock, with white wine and potherbs and coriander: there has to be a stock you can really jump up and down on.
Among the many obvious changes were longer wings shaped in a modified delta, forward winglets near the fuselage that helped maneuverability, and a reworked cockpit area.
Most people scattered as soon as they caught sight of the creature with its iridescent-green winglets always turned sunward .
Dessa could vent her fury, every pakka grazing in the meadow suddenly shrieked and bolted for the trees, winglets flapping madly in desperate instinct to fly.
Rubin was the kind of guy who would stake out a pregnant female fly, slice her open without anesthesia, and pull the winglets off all her little fly feti in front of her eyes.