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FLIGHT LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flight line mean? 

FLIGHT LINE (noun)
  The noun FLIGHT LINE has 1 sense:

1. place where airplanes are parked and the maintenance hangars (but not the runways or taxiways)play

  Familiarity information: FLIGHT LINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLIGHT LINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Place where airplanes are parked and the maintenance hangars (but not the runways or taxiways)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("flight line" is a kind of...):

line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)

Holonyms ("flight line" is a part of...):

airfield; field; flying field; landing field (a place where planes take off and land)


 Context examples 


NASA's C-20A features a high-precision autopilot designed and developed by engineers at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, allowing the aircraft to fly the same flight lines this spring as those flown in 2013 within 15 feet (4.5 meters) or closer.

(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)



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