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AERONAUTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aeronautic mean?
• AERONAUTIC (adjective)
The adjective AERONAUTIC has 1 sense:
1. of or pertaining to aeronautics
Familiarity information: AERONAUTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to aeronautics
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
aeronautic; aeronautical
Pertainym:
aeronautics (the theory and practice of navigation through air or space)
Derivation:
aeronautics (the theory and practice of navigation through air or space)
Context examples
Finally he described, amongst some merriment, the ingenious but highly dangerous aeronautic invention of Professor Challenger, and wound up a most memorable address by an account of the methods by which the committee did at last find their way back to civilization.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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