Crossword clues for nacelle
nacelle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nacelle \Na*celle"\ (n[.a]*s[e^]l"), n. [F.]
A small boat. [Obs.]
The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.
A streamlined enclosure on an airplane, as for the engine or for the cargo or passengers; -- formerly used to refer to the boatlike, inclosed body of an airplane which is usually now called the fuselage, and now referring mostly to the enclosure for the engine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "small boat," from Old French nacele "little boat, bark, skiff" (12c., Modern French nacelle), from Vulgar Latin *naucella, from Late Latin navicella "a little ship," diminutive of navis "ship" (see naval). Meaning "gondola of an airship" is from 1901; extended to "cockpit of an aircraft" by 1914; later transferred to other similar housings and structures.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine, cargo, or crew. 2 The part between the tower and rotor of a wind turbine. 3 The compartment that holds passengers on a hot-air balloon, a dirigible, or an aerostat; a gondola. 4 (cx obsolete English) A small boat.
WordNet
n. a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine
Wikipedia
The nacelle is a housing, separate from the fuselage, that holds engines, fuel, or equipment on an aircraft. In some cases—for instance in the typical "Farman" type "pusher" aircraft, or the World War II-era P-38 Lightning—an aircraft's cockpit may also be housed in a nacelle, which essentially fills the function of a conventional fuselage. The covering is typically aerodynamically shaped.
A nacelle is a cover housing that houses all of the generating components in a wind turbine, including the generator, gearbox, drive train, and brake assembly.
A notable feature now found on some off-shore wind turbines is a large sturdy helicopter-hoisting platform built on top of the nacelle, capable of supporting service personnel and their tools, winched down to the platform from a helicopter hovering above it. Wind turbine rotors are stopped, feathered and locked before personnel are dropped down to or picked up from the platforms.
Usage examples of "nacelle".
Taller than the towers, the nacelles of the downed bird rose into view beyond the broken crest of a distant lava butte.
Exactly 2,017 trillionths of a second before reaching the boundary point, she issued the command to the warp engines to change their subspace field configuration slightly, to trigger the interspace jump back to her own universe, then waited as the command crawled out at light-speed through the optical network to the warp nacelles.
The Gezary was a sleek vessel with three nacelles in close proximity, like a trimaran sailing ship.
He gently nudged the plane lower, dropping behind the rows of waves, attempting to land on the downward side of one, using its slope to slacken the impact The propellers were throwing up huge billows of spray behind the engine nacelles, and the fog was beginning to enshroud the cockpit windshield when the first impact came.
It was the Deimos skyhook, and the nacelle was one of the starport terminals that hauled passengers and cargo up to the little potato moon, 12,500 miles overhead.
He made his way quickly to the sensor nacelle, after first stopping by his cabin to pick up a Berthing and Workspace Sanitary Inspection Module for his clipboard.
The cadgers were busy readying a new cast of falcons, unscrewing the air tubes from the cadge tanks and attaching them to the little streamlined nacelles the birds carried in flight.
Fan nacelles on the Dornier's canards and wings rotated to the vertical, and the plane touched down on one of the floating quays.
The PAVE HAMMER, formerly one of the Hammerheads' antismuggling aircraft and still sporting its distinctive Department of Border Security high-visibility orange markings, lifted off from the interstate rest-stop parking lot and leaped into the sky, rotating its wingtip engine nacelles so the two large rotors were pointing at a 45-degree angle for more forward speed.
Over two feet long, the model was almost finished, complete with her "flying buttresses"the Rover strokes, fanned stalks on each side that held the nacelles down and backthe charcoaly black hat, and every crease and line between the hull plates lovingly etched in.
Over two feet long, the model was almost finished, complete with her “flying buttresses” — the Rover strakes, fanned stalks on each side that held the nacelles down and back — the charcoaly black hat, and every crease and line between the hull plates lovingly etched in.
Lord and all this year's conspicuous tech-wonks in mounting the heaters and stringing the lights and running coaxial shunts with ceramic jacks between the Pump Room's main breaker and the Sunstrand grid and booting up the circulation-fans and pneumatic hoists that'll raise the Lung to the inflated shape of a distended igloo, sixteen courts in four rows of four, enclosed and warmed by nothing but fibrous Gore-Tex and AC current and an enormous ATHSCME Exhaust-Flow Effectuator that an ATHSCME crew in one of the ATHSCME helicopters will bring in in a sling and cable and mount and secure on the Lung's nipply nacelle at the top of the inflating dome.
In his mind he saw the homely muscle of a ship lifting its black pot lid to viciously pull against a bigger dog, the fan-shaped Rover strakes leaning down to the duckwing nacelles below, warning lights flickering all over her outer hull and flush vents angrily spewing funnels of residual plasma.
One of the plasma injectors on the starboard nacelle had acted up, and he had had to take the warp engines offline to handle the repairs.
It was only marginally stable, extremely wet, and more than a little dangerous because the powerplant was a nacelle cannibalized from an air-cushion vehicle.