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postflight

postflight adjective: after a flight.

Adjective

postflight (not comparable)

  1. After a flight.
    • The great game of golf offered an antidote to the inevitable dead space — blocks of difficult-to-use hours, pre- and postflight — that are one of business travel’s biggest drags.2007 September 4, John Berg, “Time on the Greens Beats Time at the Gate”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2021

Noun

postflight (plural postflights)

  1. The portion of the movement after pushing off the vault but before landing on the mat.
    • Between the preflight and postflight is the block, a rapid motion in which the gymnast’s hands hit the vault and she pushes herself off, converting the horizontal momentum from her sprint down the runway into vertical momentum.2024 July 27, Maggie Astor, “Your Guide to Olympic Gymnastics: Vault”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2024

Forms of postflight

pluralpostflights

Origin of postflight

From post- + flight.

Questions about postflight

What does postflight mean?
Postflight means after a flight.
What part of speech is postflight?
Postflight can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near postflight in the dictionary

  1. postflame
  2. postflare
  3. postfledging
  4. postflexion
  5. postflexural
  6. postflight
  7. postflights
  8. postflood
  9. postflop
  10. postflow
  11. postflowering

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