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main gear

main gear noun: the primary landing gear of an aircraft, generally located slightly behind the aircraft's center of mass (or slightly ahead of it on a taildragger aircraft) and carrying the majority of the aircraft's weight.

Noun

main gear (countable and uncountable, plural main gears)

  1. The primary landing gear of an aircraft, generally located slightly behind the aircraft's center of mass (or slightly ahead of it on a taildragger aircraft) and carrying the majority of the aircraft's weight.

Forms of main gear

pluralmain gears
alternative formmaingear

Questions about main gear

What does main gear mean?
Main gear means the primary landing gear of an aircraft, generally located slightly behind the aircraft's center of mass (or slightly ahead of it on a taildragger aircraft) and carrying the majority of the aircraft's weight.
What part of speech is main gear?
Main gear is a noun.
What is the plural of main gear?
The plural of main gear is main gears.

Words near main gear in the dictionary

  1. main event
  2. main events
  3. main frame
  4. main frames
  5. main gauche
  6. main gear
  7. main gears
  8. main group
  9. main group element
  10. main group elements
  11. main groups

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