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AOA

AOA is the initialism of angle of attack.

AOA is the initialism of abort once around.

AOA is the initialism of add-on armor.

AOA is the initialism of Administration on Aging.

Meaning of angle of attack

Noun

angle of attack (plural angles of attack)

  1. The angle between the chord line of an airfoil and the airflow over it; one of the determiners of the amount of lift produced by an airfoil.
  2. The angle between a mid-sail and the direction of the wind.
  3. The angle between the plane of rotation of a wheel and the outer rail in the track curve.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see angle, attack.
    Synonyms:
    AOA, α, alpha

Noun capitalized: AoA

AoA (plural AoAs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of angle of attack.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, dating) Initialism of age of attraction.

Forms of AOA

pluralAOAs
alternative formAoA
pluralAoAs

Questions about AOA

What is AOA the initialism of?
AOA is the initialism of angle of attack.
What part of speech is AOA?
AOA is a noun.
What is the plural of AOA?
The plural of AOA is AOAs.

Words near AOA in the dictionary

  1. anœstrus
  2. ao
  3. ao dai
  4. ao dais
  5. AO3
  6. AOA
  7. AOABH
  8. AOAs
  9. AOB
  10. aobao
  11. AOC

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: AOA (page history and authors); AoA (page history and authors); angle of attack (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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