airfoil
noun
air·foil
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Definition of airfoil
: a body (such as an airplane wing or propeller blade) designed to provide a desired reaction force when in motion relative to the surrounding air
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Trailing behind that is a thin airfoil covered by the second electrode. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Ion drive meets drone, as small plane flies with no moving parts," 21 Nov. 2018 On either side of the body, hanging off the wing, was a series of the wire/airfoil ionizers (two rows from front to back, both in a column of four for a total of eight). — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Ion drive meets drone, as small plane flies with no moving parts," 21 Nov. 2018 The above image shows the computational grid, rendered as blue lines, as well as the airfoil and the flow solution, showing how the grid adapts itself to the flow. — Lee Phillips, Ars Technica, "Turbulence, the oldest unsolved problem in physics," 10 Oct. 2018 In the bowing airfoil shape, air moving over the longer, curved side moves faster than air flowing by the other side, generating lift. — Popular Mechanics, "The Beginner's Guide To Sailing," 18 May 2018 The aircraft design uses Honda's over-the-wing engine mount, developed on the original HondaJet, as well as a composite fuselage and natural laminar flow airfoil. — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, "Honda's New Business Jet Has Longer Range—and a Toilet Seatbelt," 30 May 2018 How Wind Moves a Boat A sail full of wind forms an airfoil and propels the boat with lift, the way a plane’s wing does (except across water, rather than into the air). — Popular Mechanics, "The Beginner's Guide To Sailing," 18 May 2018 Domel, Saadat and other colleagues working at Harvard biology professor George Lauder’s lab used 3-D printing to recreate the shape of shortfin mako shark denticles onto an airfoil. — Sydney Pereira, Newsweek, "To Fly Faster, Humans Look to the Mysteries of Shark Skin," 7 Feb. 2018 Lincoln Design Director David Woodhouse points to the converging roof and rocker lines that create an airfoil-like shape, while the bold front end and tapered greenhouse echoes historic aircraft design. — Gary Gastelu, Fox News, "New York Auto Show: The Lincoln Aviator SUV returns," 28 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'airfoil.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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