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delta glider

delta glider noun: a gliding aircraft with a delta wing.

Noun

delta glider (plural delta gliders)

  1. A gliding aircraft with a delta wing.
    • After extensive wind-tunnel work he evolved a series of designs, starting with a very advanced delta glider and culminating in a supersonic aeroplane with a revolutionary coal-burning ram-jet.1953, J. H. Stevens, The Shape of the Aeroplane
    • In response, NACA Director Hugh L. Dryden formed a "Round Three" […] steering committee which evaluated the various projects and then recommended to the Air Force, in September 1957, that the service sponsor development of a flat-bottom hypersonic delta glider.1987, Clarence J. Geiger, Strangled Infant: The Boeing X-20A Dyna-Soar

Forms of delta glider

pluraldelta gliders

Origin of delta glider

From the shape of the Greek letter delta (Δ); see delta wing.

Questions about delta glider

What does delta glider mean?
Delta glider means a gliding aircraft with a delta wing.
What part of speech is delta glider?
Delta glider is a noun.
What is the plural of delta glider?
The plural of delta glider is delta gliders.

Words near delta glider in the dictionary

  1. Delta County
  2. delta decay
  3. delta female
  4. delta females
  5. Delta Force
  6. delta glider
  7. delta gliders
  8. delta hinge
  9. delta hinges
  10. delta iron
  11. delta irons

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