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autoland

autoland noun: an instance of autolanding.

Noun

autoland (countable and uncountable, plural autolands)

  1. An instance of autolanding.
    • Autolands are useful in bad weather conditions.
  2. A system which automatically lands a plane under autopilot
    Synonyms:
    autolander
    1. An emergency landing system which automatically lands a plane under autopilot, while issuing automated radio notices of its operating mode.

Verb

autoland (third-person singular simple present autolands, present participle autolanding, simple past and past participle autolanded)

  1. To perform an autolanding.

Synonyms of autoland

  • autolander

Forms of autoland

Noun
pluralautolands
Verb
third-person singular presentautolands
present participleautolanding
past participleautolanded
pastautolanded

Origin of autoland

From auto- + land.

Questions about autoland

What does autoland mean?
Autoland means an instance of autolanding.
What part of speech is autoland?
Autoland can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of autoland?
The plural of autoland is autolands.

Words near autoland in the dictionary

  1. autokinetical
  2. autokoenonous
  3. autokrator
  4. autokrators
  5. autolactation
  6. autoland
  7. autolanded
  8. autolanding
  9. autolandings
  10. autolands
  11. autolaryngoscope

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autoland (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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