Word.ws English Dictionary

stall speeds

stall speeds is the plural of stall speed.

Meaning of stall speed

Noun

stall speed (plural stall speeds)

  1. The airspeed at which the lift generated by an aircraft flying with an angle of attack equal to the stall angle (the point of maximum lift for a given airspeed) is exactly equal to the aircraft's weight; the minimum airspeed at which it is possible to maintain level unaccelerated flight.
    • The aircraft configuration was such that there was little or no warning of the stall onset. The inboard slats were extended, and therefore, the flow separation from the stall would be limited to the outboard segment of the left wing and would not be felt by the left horizontal stabilizer. There...1979 December 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “Aircraft and Flightcrew Performance”, in Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc., DC-10-10, N110AA, Chicago-O'Hare International...
    Synonyms:
    Vs

Questions about stall speeds

What is stall speeds the plural of?
Stall speeds is the plural of stall speed.

Words near stall speeds in the dictionary

  1. stall handler
  2. stall handlers
  3. stall off
  4. stall out
  5. stall speed
  6. stall speeds
  7. stall turn
  8. stall turns
  9. stall-fed
  10. stall-feed
  11. stall-feeding

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stall speeds (page history and authors); stall speed (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “stall speeds.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stall_speeds. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.