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Definition: Aileron |
AileronNoun1. An airfoil that controls lateral motion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aileron" was first used: 1909. (references) |
Etymology: Aileron \Ai"le*ron\, noun. [French expression, diminutive of aile wing.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Transportation | A movable portion of an airplane wing or a movable airfoil external. . . the wing whose function is to impart a rolling motion to the airplane and thus provide lateral control. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military & Defense | Pair of control surfaces, normally hinged along the wing span, designed to control an aircraft in roll by its differential movement. It produces primarily rolling moment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | The primary control surface located near the wing tip, which makes up part of the total wing area and is used to cause rotation of the aircraft about the longitudinal axis. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An unwanted side-effect of aileron operation is a yawing moment, caused by the downgoing aileron producing more drag than the upgoing aileron. One way of minimising this is to arrange for the upgoing aileron to move further than the downgoing aileron, to try to balance out the drag forces generated.
Modern airliners tend to have a second set of inboard ailerons much closer to the fuselage, which are used at high speeds. Some aircraft use spoilers to achieve the same effect as ailerons.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aileron."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Navigation | Noun: navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aileron |
| Specialty definitions using "aileron": aileron roll ♦ skewed aileron. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Aileron" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (aileron), French (aileron, fin). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Working on an aileron assembly of a wing at the Vought Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Stratford, Connecticut.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Aileron" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aileron" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 41 | 53,521 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "aileron": aileron angle ♦ aileron control ♦ aileron control system ♦ aileron linkage arrangement ♦ aileron roll ♦ aileron span ♦ aileron tab ♦ inboard aileron ♦ outboard aileron ♦ retractable aileron ♦ skewed aileron. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "aileron": aileron-spoiler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "aileron"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | موازنة الطائرة, الجنيح جزء متحرك من جناح الطائرة لحفظ التوازن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спомагателно крило на аероплан, алерон, издаден орнамент на стена. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 飞机辅翼. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | křidélko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vingeklap, balanceklap (balancing flap, wing tip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rolroer (balancing flap, wing tip), aileron (balancing flap, wing tip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قسمت متحرک بال هواپیما. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | siiveke. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aileron. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Querruder (balancing flap, wing tip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πηδάλιο κλίσεωσ αέροσ, πηδάλιο κλίσεως, πτερύγιο κλίσης (balancing flap, cross-member, wing tip), πτερύγιο αεροπλάνου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מאז ת. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csûrõlap repülõgépen, csûrõkormány, csűrőlap (wing-flap), csűrőkormány. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kemudi (helm), guling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alettone (balancing flap, flap, wing tip), alerone (balancing flap, wing tip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 補助翼 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほじょよく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ealeyrane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aileronay asa do leme (balancing flap, wing tip), ailerom, ailerão (balancing flap, wing tip). (various references) eleron. (various references) элерон. (various references) krilce, eleron. (various references) alerón (flap). (various references) skevningsroder. (various references) kanatçık (aerofoil, vane), eleron. (various references) елерон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ala. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aileron": ailerons. (additional references) | |
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"Aileron" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ailaron, ailuron, aiolupo, Alceron, aldron, Alero, alienor, alieron, aliorum, aliterioi, Allerod, alxenor, Auberrow, Calierno, Eilenroc, Oleron, Salleron. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "aileron" (pronounced 'Ai"le*ron'): Acheron, Almendron, Andiron, Andron, Apastron, Apron, Beakiron, boron, Box-iron, Caldron, Cascaron, Cast-iron, Catopron, Chaldron, Chamfron, Charon, Chawdron, Chevron, Chiliahedron, Citron, Cobiron, Coelectron, Cubo-octahedron, Decahedron, Decameron, Deltohedron, Diatessaron, Dihedron, Dodecahedron, Enpatron, Enteron, Entoplastron, Ephemeron, Epimeron, Epiplastron, Epoophoron, Exametron, Fanfaron, flatiron, Fleuron, Goudron, gridiron, Gyron, Handiron, Hemihedron, Heptahedron, hexahedron, Hexoctahedron, Hyopastron, Hypoplastron, icosahedron, Lepidodendron, Leucadendron, macron, makaron, Making-iron, Marron, matron, Mesenteron, micron, millimicron, moneron, Monotessaron, Natron, neuron, Nycthemeron, Octaemeron, Octahedron, Omicron, Oxymoron, Paroophoron, Pauldron, Pentacron, Pentahedron, Percheron, Periastron, Perienteron, Perron, Plastron, Pleuron, Polron, Polyacron, Polyedron, Polyhedron, Pouldron, Powldron, Pteron, Puceron, Pyritohedron, rhododendron, rhombohedron, Sadiron, Scalenohedron, Semidiatessaron, Southron, spiegel, squadron, Tendron, tetrahedron, Tetrahexahedron, Triakisoctahedron, Trihedron, Trisoctahedron, TRON, Tue-iron, Ulodendron, Waltron, Xiphiplastron. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alienor. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: aliner, eolian, larine, linear, loaner, nailer, neroli, reloan, renail. | |
-2 letters: alien, aline, aloin, alone, anile, anole, ariel, elain, eloin, enrol, irone, learn, liane, liner, loner, loran, nerol, noria, oiler, olein, oriel, renal, reoil. | |
-3 letters: aeon, aero, airn, aloe, anil, aril, earl, earn, elan, enol, ilea, inro, iron, lain, lair, lane, lari, lean, lear, leno, liar, lien, lier, line, lino, lion, lira, lire, loan, loin, lone, lore, lorn, nail, naoi, near, noel, noil, noir, nori, olea, oral, orle, rail, rain, rale, rani, real, rein, rial, riel, rile, roan, roil, role. | |
-4 letters: ail, ain, air, ale, ane, ani, are, ear, eon, era, ern, ion, ire, lar, lea, lei, lie, lin, nae, nil, nor, oar, oil, ole, one, ora, ore, ran, rei, ria, rin, roe. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, al, an, ar, el, en, er, in, la, li, lo, na, ne, no, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: acrolein, ailerons, alienors, colinear, geraniol, oriental, overlain, pelorian, regional, relation. | |
+2 letters: acroleins, alienator, almonries, arecoline, aureoling, bandolier, bromelain, censorial, clarioned, collinear, coralline, cornelian, erosional, geraniols, girandole, ignorable, legionary, natrolite, neuroglia, nonlinear, nonpareil, normalise, normalize, orientals, parhelion, piperonal, porcelain, prolamine, rationale, recoaling, reflation, regionals, relations, reloading, reloaning, sensorial, serotinal, versional, womanlier. | |
+3 letters: adenoviral, alienators, alteration, anteriorly, arecolines, bandoliers, belaboring, blazonries, bromelains, ceremonial, chloramine, chlorinate, citronella, complainer, corallines, corelating, cornelians, debonairly, delineator, eliminator, falconries, fluorinate, girandoles, impersonal, inexorable, inexorably, inoperable, interlocal, intermodal, internodal, interzonal, intolerant, journalize, laceration, laureation, lectionary, liberation, linerboard, literation, longhaired, meridional, mineralogy, monetarily, nalorphine, natrolites, neoliberal, neorealism, neorealist, neuroglial, neuroglias, nonliteral, nonpareils, normalcies, normalised, normalises, normalized, normalizer, normalizes, orientally, overlading, overlaying, palindrome, panbroiled, peritoneal, piperonals, porcelains, pratincole, prolamines, rationales, reflations, refloating, regionally, regulation, relational, relaxation, relegation, relocating, relocation, revelation, rhizoplane, rosemaling, seignorial, senatorial, tolerating, toleration, torrential, tourmaline, trampoline, ulceration, urogenital, ventilator. | |
+4 letters: aeronomical, alterations, altercation, alternation, antileprosy, archegonial, arenicolous, beclamoring, beglamoring, belabouring, billionaire, bioregional, carillonned, cartoonlike, celebration, ceremonials, chloramines, chlorinated, chlorinates, citronellal, citronellas, colinearity, complainers, confirmable, contractile, cordialness, cordilleran, correlating, correlation, countervail, crenelation, crenulation, declaration, defloration, delineators, delusionary, desalinator, directional, disrelation, dragonflies, elaborating, elaboration, eliminators, elutriation, endocardial, endometrial, enteroviral, erosionally, exploration, fluorinated, fluorinates, freeloading, grandiosely, incorporeal, infomercial, insertional, intercostal, interpolate, intolerable, intolerably, intolerance, inventorial, involucrate, journalized, journalizer, journalizes, lacerations, lamellicorn, laureations, legionaries, legionnaire, liberations, linerboards, lionhearted, literations, lowercasing, macronuclei, meliorating, melioration, meridionals, millionaire, mineralogic, momentarily, nalorphines, narcoleptic, necrophilia, nefariously, neocortical, neoliberals, neorealisms, neorealists, neurulation, nonallergic, nonclerical, nonintegral, nonliterary, nonliterate, nonmaterial, nonmetrical, nonrelative, nonterminal, normalities, normalizers, normatively, oneirically, operational, organizable, orientalism, orientalist, orientalize, outlearning, overcalling, overexplain, overhauling, overinflate, overlapping, overleaping, overloading, overplaying, oversalting, overtalking, overvaluing, palindromes, pelargonium, percolating, percolation, periodontal, personalise, personalism, personalist, personality, personalize, philodendra, pilocarpine, polyandries, pratincoles, precolonial, prelibation, previsional, proletarian, radiolucent, rainbowlike, rationalise, rationalize, realization, reallotting, recessional, reclamation, redactional, reductional, regionalism, regionalist, regionalize, regulations, reinflation, reinoculate, relaxations, relegations, relocations, reluctation, renormalize, replication, retailoring, retaliation, revaluation, revelations, reversional, rhizoplanes, rosemalings, salinometer, secondarily, sensorially, subregional, tolerations, tourmalines, trampoliner, trampolines, ulcerations, unignorable, unpolarized, vainglories, ventilators, ventilatory, voluntaries, workmanlike, zillionaire. | |
+5 letters: aberrational, acceleration, acetonitrile, adulteration, aeronautical, aerosolizing, allegorising, allegorizing, alliteration, altercations, alternations, ameliorating, amelioration, anthologizer, antielectron, antireligion, banderillero, beglamouring, billionaires, bipropellant, carillonneur, celebrations, ceremonially, citronellals, clairvoyance, collinearity, conferential, considerable, considerably, contractible, conversional, coordinately, correctional, correlations, counterclaim, countervails, cowardliness, craniologies, crenelations, crenellation, crenulations, creolization, deceleration, dechlorinate, declarations, deflagration, deflationary, deflorations, degringolade, deliberation, demoralizing, depolarizing, deregulation, derivational, desalinators, digressional, dilatoriness, dishonorable, disrelations, dorsiventral, edulcorating, elaborations, elocutionary, elucubration, elutriations, emblazonries, entropically, evolutionary, exclusionary, exhilaration, exorbitantly, explorations, expressional, flavoprotein, forensically, forestalling, frontalities, furazolidone, generational, grandiflorae, iconolatries, impersonally, imponderable, imponderably, incomparable, incorporable, infomercials, inoperculate, inordinately, intercoastal, intercostals, interlobular, interorbital, interpolated, interpolates, interpolator, intervocalic, intolerances, intolerantly, ironicalness, isoprenaline, journalizers, lamellicorns, lampooneries, laterization, leapfrogging, lectionaries, legionnaires, lepidopteran, loganberries, malnourished, malversation, meliorations, meridionally, metalworking, metronomical, metropolitan, microbalance, millionaires, mineralogies, mineralogist, narcolepsies, narcoleptics, nationalizer, necrological, necrophiliac, necrophilias, neorealistic, neurological, neurotically, neurulations, nonbacterial, nonclericals, noncollinear, noneditorial, nonempirical, nonlibraries, nonlinearity, nonliterates, nonmercurial, nonnumerical, nonrealistic, nonrelatives, nonspherical, nonsteroidal, nonuniversal, noradrenalin, normalizable, obliterating, obliteration, organoleptic, organologies, orientalisms, orientalists, orientalized, orientalizes, overanalysis, overclaiming, overcleaning, overclearing, overexplains, overhandling, overinflated, overinflates, overlaboring, overlearning, overpedaling, overplanning, overplanting, overreliance, pelargoniums, perceptional, percolations, perichondral, peritoneally, perorational, personalised, personalises, personalisms, personalists, personalized, personalizes, personalties, pilocarpines, porcelainize, preallotting, precentorial, precessional, prelibations, processional, professional, projectional, proletarians, providential, radioelement, radiolucency, radionuclide, rationalised, rationalises, rationalized, rationalizer, rationalizes, rationalness, realizations, reallocating, reallocation, recessionals, reclamations, recognizable, recognizably, reconcilable, recreational, reescalation, reevaluation, reflationary, reflectional, regionalisms, regionalists, regionalized, regionalizes, reinflations, reinoculated, reinoculates, relationally, relationship, reluctations, renegotiable, renormalized, renormalizes, repetitional, replantation, replications, repolarizing, repopulating, repopulation, reputational, reregulation, retaliations, reticulation, retinotectal, revalidation, revalorizing, revaluations, ribonuclease, salinometers, sloganeering, solitariness, steamrolling, thermohaline, torrentially, towardliness, trampoliners, ultraviolent, uncommercial, unforgivable, unglamorized, unmoralities, unprofitable, unrhetorical, urbanologies, urinogenital, velarization, ventromedial, waterfowling, waterlogging, zillionaires. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 6C 65 72 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .. .-.. . .-. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01101100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i l e r o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 006C 0065 0072 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35757871848180 |
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