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microflyer

microflyer noun: an extremely small aircraft that is typically used for surveillance.

Noun

microflyer (plural microflyers)

  1. An extremely small aircraft that is typically used for surveillance.
    • Spy planes that are small enough to fit in the hand could be taking to the skies within three years. Called microflyers, the planes will have a wingspan of about 15cms and weigh less than 100 grammes.1997 February 23, Mark Prigg, “Microplanes take shape”, in Sunday Times
    • The 10-gram microflyer demonstrated autonomous operation using only visual, gyroscopic and anemometric sensors.2008, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Bio-inspired Flying Robots, →ISBN

Examples of microflyer in a sentence

  • The ability to hover as well as fly efficiently at low speeds is crucial for a microflyer designed for indoor surveillance.2013, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Raul Jose Martin-Palma, Engineered Biomimicry, →ISBN, page 119:
  • The interpolation image algorithm (I2A) combined with a 1D camera array have been used onboard an indoor microflyer.2014, Esmaiel Jabbari, Deok-Ho Kim, Luke P Lee, Handbook of Biomimetics and Bioinspiration, →ISBN, page 574:

Forms of microflyer

pluralmicroflyers

Origin of microflyer

From micro- + flyer.

Questions about microflyer

What does microflyer mean?
Microflyer means an extremely small aircraft that is typically used for surveillance.
How do you use microflyer in a sentence?
The ability to hover as well as fly efficiently at low speeds is crucial for a microflyer designed for indoor surveillance.
What part of speech is microflyer?
Microflyer is a noun.
What is the plural of microflyer?
The plural of microflyer is microflyers.

Words near microflyer in the dictionary

  1. microfluorography
  2. microfluorometer
  3. microfluorometers
  4. microfluorometric
  5. microfluorometry
  6. microflyer
  7. microflyers
  8. microfoam
  9. microfoams
  10. microfocal
  11. microfoci

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