airfoil
airfoil
Definition
☆ air·foil (-fo̵il′)
noun
- a part with a flat or curved surface, as a wing, rudder, etc., specifically designed to keep an aircraft up or control its movements by reacting to the air through which it moves
- a similar winglike surface designed to improve stability for high-speed cars and boats; spoiler
airfoil
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- shape: Experiment with airfoil shapes and discover how they affect the way a plane flies.
- design: The optimization of airfoil designs is a challenging, computationally expensive, highly constrained, non-linear problem.
- section: Airfoil section -- cross section of an airfoil parallel to a specific reference plane.
