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autolanding

autolanding noun: a landing made automatically by a system on the aircraft, with the flight crew only supervising the process. Also the present participle and gerund of autoland.

Noun

autolanding (countable and uncountable, plural autolandings)

  1. (countable) A landing made automatically by a system on the aircraft, with the flight crew only supervising the process.
    Synonyms:
    autoland
  2. (uncountable) The process and procedure of autolanding, the action of to autoland.

Also used as

autolanding is also the present participle and gerund of autoland.

Synonyms of autolanding

Forms of autolanding

pluralautolandings

Origin of autolanding

From auto- + landing.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about autolanding

What does autolanding mean?
Autolanding means a landing made automatically by a system on the aircraft, with the flight crew only supervising the process.
What part of speech is autolanding?
Autolanding is a noun.
What is the plural of autolanding?
The plural of autolanding is autolandings.

Words near autolanding in the dictionary

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

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