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flotillas

flotillas is the plural of flotilla.

Meaning of flotilla

Noun

flotilla (plural flotillas)

  1. A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
    • Toward the horizon a flotilla of fishing-boats showed immutable, pink-lacquered by the evening sun.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 102
  2. (broadly) A small group of things or people
    • After a few moments Chloe saw Rosamund walking towards them with a small flotilla of shopping bags.2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Abandon Starbucks!”, in Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 74
  3. A spaceship made of one or more central mutually stabilizing overweight spaceships flanked by lightweight, middleweight, or heavyweight spaceships that prevent the formation of destructive eggs.
    • For rule R(2222) a flotilla of six gliders traveling eastwards is generated.2005 September 28, Andrew Adamatzky, Genaro Juárez Martínez, Juan Carlos Seck Tuoh Mora, Phenomenology of reaction-diffusion binary-state cellular automata, page 21

Questions about flotillas

What is flotillas the plural of?
Flotillas is the plural of flotilla.

Words near flotillas in the dictionary

  1. flotes
  2. flother
  3. flothers
  4. flotilin
  5. flotilla
  6. flotillas
  7. flotillin
  8. flotillins
  9. floting
  10. flotorial
  11. flotsam

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