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a. 1 Of or pertaining to the leading edge of an airfoil 2 (context by extension English) leading, latest or most up-to-date
Usage examples of "leading-edge".
In quick succession she activated wingtip fences and leading-edge slats, dropped the first increment of flaps, and armed hover blasters.
Using patent data in the semiconductor industry, Song and his coworkers show how Korean and Taiwanese semiconductor firms were able to catch up to the leading-edge U.
In other words, and I intend to emphasize this heavily, centauric vision-logic can integrate physiosphere, biosphere, and noosphere in its own compound individuality (and this is, as I suggested in chapter 5, the next major stage of leading-edge global transformation, even though most of the "work yet to be done" is still getting the globe up to decentered universal-rational pluralism in the first place).
With her landing gear down, her leading-edge and trailing-edge flaps extended, and the flight control system in takeoffstland, the angle-of-attack indexers were beginning to hit the stops, and the lowspeed warning tone would intermittently sound, which meant she had to take her hand off the throttle to silence the horn.