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tail rotors

tail rotors is the plural of tail rotor.

Meaning of tail rotor

Noun

tail rotor (plural tail rotors)

  1. A small rotor mounted vertically at the end of the tail of a single-rotor helicopter so as to develop thrust in the same direction as the main rotor's rotation, to counter the torque effect created by the main rotor.
    Synonyms:
    auxiliary rotor

Questions about tail rotors

What is tail rotors the plural of?
Tail rotors is the plural of tail rotor.

Words near tail rotors in the dictionary

  1. tail rhyme
  2. tail rhymes
  3. tail risk
  4. tail risks
  5. tail rotor
  6. tail rotors
  7. tail slate
  8. tail slates
  9. tail slide
  10. tail slides
  11. tail stall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tail rotors (page history and authors); tail rotor (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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