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afts

afts is the plural of aft.

Meaning of aft

Adverb

aft (comparative further aft or farther aft or more aft, superlative furthest aft or farthest aft or most aft)

  1. At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
    • I came safe on board, but I felt anything but easy about the boat and the boy; my thoughts were not where they should be, for every moment I had to give the boat and the boy a look, and at last I saw a sea strike the boat aft, which gave it a send forward and under, and the next moment he was gone.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 183
    Synonyms:
    abaft, astern

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Noun capitalized: AFTS

AFTS (plural AFTSes)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of autonomous/automated/automatic flight termination system. A self-activating self-destruct system found on rockets
    Synonyms:
    AFSS

Synonyms of afts

Forms of afts

pluralAFTSes

Questions about afts

What is afts the plural of?
Afts is the plural of aft.
What part of speech is afts?
Afts is a noun.
What is the plural of afts?
The plural of afts is AFTSes.

Words near afts in the dictionary

  1. Aftonian
  2. Aftonomos
  3. aftosa
  4. AFTRA
  5. aftre
  6. afts
  7. aftuh
  8. aftward
  9. aftwards
  10. afty
  11. AFU

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Adapted from Wiktionary: afts (page history and authors); AFTS (page history and authors); aft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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