AVIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aviation mean? 

• AVIATION (noun)
  The noun AVIATION has 4 senses:

1. the aggregation of a country's military aircraft

2. the operation of aircraft to provide transportation

3. the art of operating aircraft

4. travel via aircraft

  Familiarity information: AVIATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The aggregation of a country's military aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

air power; aviation

Hypernyms ("aviation" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The operation of aircraft to provide transportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("aviation" is a kind of...):

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

Derivation:

aviate (operate an airplane)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The art of operating aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

airmanship; aviation

Hypernyms ("aviation" is a kind of...):

art; artistry; prowess (a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation)

Derivation:

aviate (operate an airplane)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Travel via aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

air; air travel; aviation

Context example:

if you've time to spare go by air

Hypernyms ("aviation" is a kind of...):

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

Domain member category:

glide (fly in or as if in a glider plane)

peel off (leave a formation)

emplane; enplane (board a plane)

deplane (get off an airplane)

bring down; land; put down (cause to come to the ground)

ditch (make an emergency landing on water)

crash land (make an emergency landing)

belly-land (land on the underside without the landing gear)

chandelle (climb suddenly and steeply)

crash-dive (descend steeply and rapidly)

nosedive (plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft)

power-dive (make a power dive)

sailplane; soar (fly a plane without an engine)

kite (soar or fly like a kite)

test fly (test a plane)

overfly; pass over (fly over)

fly (travel in an airplane)

red-eye (travel on an overnight flight)

cruise (travel at a moderate speed)

stooge (cruise in slow or routine flights)

stall (cause an airplane to go into a stall)

stall (experience a stall in flight, of airplanes)

buzz (fly low)

crab (direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind)

aviate; fly; pilot (operate an airplane)

fly blind (fly an airplane solely by relying on instruments)

fly contact (fly a plane by using visible landmarks or points of reference)

solo (fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers)

jet (fly a jet plane)

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

flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)

 Context examples 

And that's where the process ends: decane can be used in aviation fuel.

(Will We Soon Drive on ‘Grassoline’?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Also under research is the use of microalgae in the production of aviation biokerosene (BioQAV) in partnership with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)

Another sector potentially affected by such events is aviation, since smoke clouds are found at the same altitude at which aeroplanes fly and particles can reduce visibility.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

During 2017’s Hurricane Irma, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that a simultaneous space weather event brought down radio communications used by first responders, aviation and maritime channels for eight hours on the day the hurricane made landfall.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)