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Definitions: WINGLET |
WINGLETNoun1. A bastard wing, or alula. 2. A little wing; a very small wing. |
| Language | Translations for "WINGLET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כ פון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ingletway aripioarã (fin, paddle, wing). (various references) крилечко. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Winglets work by increasing the aspect ratio of a wing without adding greatly to the structural stress and hence necessary weight of its structure - an extension of wing span would also permit lowering of drag, but this comes at a cost of boosting the strength of the wing and hence its weight - there would come a point at which no overall useful saving would be made. A winglet helps to solve this by effectively increasing the aspect ratio without adding to the span.
The exact upward angle (called cant) of the winglet, and its inward angle (or toe) is critical for correct performance, and is determined for each aircraft application. The vortex which rotates around from below the wing strikes the angled surface of the winglet, generating a small lift force that angles forwards relative to the direction of flight - thus the energy in the vortex contributes to thrust rather than drag is it normally would. This is analogous to a sailing boat sailing very close to the wind. This small contribution can be very worthwhile on long distance flights.
Many modern types of aircraft, especially airliners, have winglets, for example the Airbus A340, and the Boeing 747-400. Other designs such as the Boeing 777 omit them, because the gain available is very small and would make the aircraft just too large for a standard airport gate. The designers of the 777 considered folding wingtips to accommodate winglets, but in the end decided that the extra complexity of the wing did not justify it.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Winglet."
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "WINGLET": winglets. (additional references) | |
Words containing "WINGLET": swingletree, swingletrees. (additional references) | |
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"WINGLET" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cinegelet, wiglet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "WINGLET" (pronounced 'Wing"let'): Armlet, Ballet, Batlet, Beamlet, Bendlet, Birdlet, Bloodlet, Booklet, Bracelet, Bractlet, Branchlet, Brooklet, Budlet, Bullet, Camlet, Cantlet, Chainlet, Chamlet, Cloudlet, Corselet, Corslet, Couplet, Croslet, Cross-crosslet, Crownlet, Cutlet, Finlet, Flamelet, Fortlet, Frislet, Frondlet, frontlet, Giblet, Goblet, gullet, Hamlet, Haslet, Inlet, islet, kinglet, leaflet, Liplet, Lobelet, mallet, Martlet, millet, Mountlet, Murrelet, necklet, Notelet. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: welting. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n-t-w" | |
-1 letter: gentil, tewing, tingle, twinge, wiglet, wintle. | |
-2 letters: elint, glint, ingle, inlet, legit, tinge, twine. | |
-3 letters: gelt, gent, gien, gilt, glen, lent, lien, line, ling, lint, lite, lwei, newt, nite, tile, tine, ting, twig, twin, welt, went, wile, wilt, wine, wing, wite. | |
-4 letters: eng, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, leg, lei, let, lie, lin. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n-t-w" | |
+1 letter: leftwing, toweling, weltings, winglets. | |
+2 letters: towelings, towelling, troweling, tweedling, weltering, wrestling. | |
+3 letters: lengthwise, sweltering, towellings, toweringly, trowelling, willingest, wrestlings. | |
+4 letters: nightwalker, swingletree, televiewing, unweetingly, witheringly. | |
+5 letters: bewitchingly, cartwheeling, caterwauling, metalworking, nightwalkers, outwrestling, stonewalling, swelteringly, swingletrees, waterfowling, waterlogging. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 49 4E 47 4C 45 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .. -. --. .-.. . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01001001 01001110 01000111 01001100 01000101 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W I N G L E T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0049 004E 0047 004C 0045 0054 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57434841463954 |
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