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sidesticks

sidesticks is the plural of sidestick.

Meaning of sidestick

Noun

sidestick (plural sidesticks)

  1. A control joystick located beside the seat of the pilot.
    • The FDR showed that the captain immediately applied back pressure on his sidestick to arrest the pitch-down movement. The aircraft’s flight control system did not initially respond to the captain’s sidestick input, but after about 2 seconds the aircraft responded normally and the captain commenced...2011 December 19, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, “1.1.3 First in-flight upset (0442:27)”, in In-flight upset - 154 km west of Learmonth, WA, 7 October 2008, VH-QPA, Airbus A330-303, archived...
  2. (historical) A sloped or beveled piece of wood or metal placed against the side of a page that is being typeset, and locked in place by quoins.
    • The sidesticks should be of the full length of the page, and abut against the headsticks on the outside of the form .1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 330

Questions about sidesticks

What is sidesticks the plural of?
Sidesticks is the plural of sidestick.

Words near sidesticks in the dictionary

  1. sidesteppers
  2. sidestepping
  3. sidesteppings
  4. sidesteps
  5. sidestick
  6. sidesticks
  7. Sidestrand
  8. sidestream
  9. sidestream smoke
  10. sidestream smokes
  11. sidestreams

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