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empennage

empennage noun: the tail assembly of an aircraft.

Noun

empennage (plural empennages)

  1. The tail assembly of an aircraft.
  2. The feathers of an arrow or the tail fins of a bomb or rocket used to stabilize the longitudinal axis of the projectile parallel to the flight path.

Forms of empennage

pluralempennages

Origin of empennage

Borrowed from French empennage (“feathers of an arrow”).

Questions about empennage

What does empennage mean?
Empennage means the tail assembly of an aircraft.
What part of speech is empennage?
Empennage is a noun.
What is the plural of empennage?
The plural of empennage is empennages.

Words near empennage in the dictionary

  1. empearled
  2. empearling
  3. empearls
  4. Empedoclean
  5. Empedocles
  6. empennage
  7. empennages
  8. Empeo
  9. empeople
  10. empeopled
  11. empeoples

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