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preflights

preflights is the plural of preflight.

Meaning of preflight

Noun

preflight (plural preflights)

  1. An inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.
  2. The portion of the movement after launching from the springboard but before pushing off the vault.
    • 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

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Questions about preflights

What is preflights the plural of?
Preflights is the plural of preflight.

Words near preflights in the dictionary

  1. preflavored
  2. preflexion
  3. preflight
  4. preflighted
  5. preflighting
  6. preflights
  7. preflood
  8. preflop
  9. preflops
  10. prefloral
  11. prefloration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preflights (page history and authors); preflight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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