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airspeed

airspeed noun: the speed of an aircraft relative to the air through which it is flying.

Noun

airspeed (plural airspeeds)

  1. The speed of an aircraft relative to the air through which it is flying.
    • Holonym: air data

airspeed meaning in Tamil

airspeed in Tamil

காற்று வேகம்

Examples of airspeed in a sentence

  • The pilot stalled the plane by pulling the nose up too high at a slow airspeed.
  • The airspeed was so low that there was insufficient elevator authority to recover from the stall.
  • At higher airspeeds there is sufficient aileron authority to perform extremely fast rolls.

All 15 example sentences with airspeed

Forms of airspeed

pluralairspeeds

Plural of airspeed: airspeeds

Origin of airspeed

From air + speed.

Words formed from airspeed

Phrases with airspeed

Questions about airspeed

What does airspeed mean?
Airspeed means the speed of an aircraft relative to the air through which it is flying.
What is airspeed in Tamil?
Airspeed in Tamil is காற்று வேகம். See Airspeed meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is airspeed?
Airspeed is a noun.
What is the plural of airspeed?
The plural of airspeed is airspeeds.

Words near airspeed in the dictionary

  1. airsoft
  2. airsome
  3. airspace
  4. airspaces
  5. Airspeak
  6. airspeed
  7. airspeed indicator
  8. airspeed indicators
  9. airspeedometer
  10. airspeedometers
  11. airspeeds

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: airspeed (page history and authors); airspeed (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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