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trirotor

trirotor adjective: having three rotors; having three main rotors.

Adjective

trirotor (not comparable)

  1. (helicopters, or drones) Having three rotors; having three main rotors.

Noun

trirotor (plural trirotors)

  1. A pump or rotorcraft with three rotors or three main rotors.

Forms of trirotor

pluraltrirotors

Origin of trirotor

From tri- + rotor. Late 19th to early 20th century, originally with reference to pumps.

Questions about trirotor

What does trirotor mean?
Trirotor means having three rotors; having three main rotors.
What part of speech is trirotor?
Trirotor can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near trirotor in the dictionary

  1. trirhenium
  2. trirhodium
  3. trirhomboidal
  4. triricinolein
  5. triron
  6. trirotor
  7. trirotors
  8. trirubidium
  9. tris
  10. tris legomena
  11. tris legomenon

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