AIRPLANE MANEUVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does airplane maneuver mean? 

• AIRPLANE MANEUVER (noun)
  The noun AIRPLANE MANEUVER has 1 sense:

1. a maneuver executed by an aircraft

  Familiarity information: AIRPLANE MANEUVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIRPLANE MANEUVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A maneuver executed by an aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

airplane maneuver; flight maneuver

Hypernyms ("airplane maneuver" is a kind of...):

evasive action; maneuver; manoeuvre (an action aimed at evading an opponent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "airplane maneuver"):

bank (a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning))

chandelle (a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction)

loop; loop-the-loop (a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane)

roll (a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude)

sideslip; slip (a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air)