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.

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