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drogueless

drogueless adjective: not equipped with a drogue.

Adjective

drogueless (not comparable)

  1. Not equipped with a drogue.
    • It appears that some buoys, in the latter part of their drift, may have been drogueless based on the results of certain buoys.1980, Ecology of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, page 2972
    • Attempts to correct the movement of drifters (of the same design as those discussed here) for windage have not been successful, either overestimating the downward movement of drogueless drifters (Kirwan et al. 1978), or underestimating the downwind movement of drifters with small drogues (McNally...1989, Journal of Physical Oceanography - Volume 19, page 299

Origin of drogueless

From drogue + -less.

Questions about drogueless

What does drogueless mean?
Drogueless means not equipped with a drogue.
What part of speech is drogueless?
Drogueless is an adjective.

Words near drogueless in the dictionary

  1. drogue chute
  2. drogue chutes
  3. drogue parachute
  4. drogue parachutes
  5. drogued
  6. drogueless
  7. drogues
  8. droguet
  9. droguets
  10. droguing
  11. droguli

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