Leading-edge meaning

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The edge of a sail that faces the wind.
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The front edge of an airplane propeller blade or wing.
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The front edge of a propeller blade or airfoil.
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A position of leadership, as in cultural or technological advances.
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(1) The edge of a document (or of a punch card during many decades of data processing) that enters the read station first.
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(aeronautics) The frontmost edge of a wing or other airfoil of an aircraft; sometimes contains slots or slats.
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(by extension) The foremost part of a trend etc; a vanguard.
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At the forefront of practice or technology, contrast with bleeding edge.
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Of or pertaining to the leading edge of an airfoil.
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(by extension) Leading, latest or most up-to-date.
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Leading-edge Sentence Examples

  • balsa covered in glass cloth with two carbon tows applied to the leading edge.

  • Trigger logic and timing is derived using leading-edge discriminators in remotely controlled 16-channel VME modules.

  • As we enter a post-genomics era, this Section plans to be at the leading edge of biological discovery.

  • first-rate package, our client offers the chance to work with high caliber colleagues in a leading-edge technology environment.

  • At each leading-edge device setting there may be one or more trailing-edge flap settings.

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