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volplane

/ˈvɒlpleɪn/

volplane noun: a steep, controlled dive, especially by an aircraft with the engine off.

Noun

volplane (plural volplanes)

  1. A steep, controlled dive, especially by an aircraft with the engine off.

Verb

volplane (third-person singular simple present volplanes, present participle volplaning, simple past and past participle volplaned)

  1. To perform a volplane.
    • […] when well over the bosche lines & he volplaned home, just skimmed over our & the Bosche trenches, they all fired at him like sin, of course, and landed about 1000 yards back on a hill.1916, Wilfred Percy ("Billie") Nevill, letter, in 1991, Ruth Elwin Harris (editor), Billie: The Nevill Letters, 1914-1916, Julia Macrae, page 143
    • Curtains of vapor drift back to reveal the Americans, volplaning along well inside ten meters and only a little faster than the balloon.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
  2. To glide.

volplane meaning in Bengali

volplane in Bengali

খাড়া এবং নিয়ন্ত্রিত ঝাঁপ, গ্লাইডিং করা, মসৃণভাবে উড়ে চলা

Forms of volplane

Noun
pluralvolplanes
Verb
third-person singular presentvolplanes
present participlevolplaning
past participlevolplaned
pastvolplaned

Origin of volplane

From French vol plané (“gliding flight”).

Questions about volplane

What does volplane mean?
Volplane means a steep, controlled dive, especially by an aircraft with the engine off.
What is volplane in Bengali?
Volplane in Bengali is খাড়া এবং নিয়ন্ত্রিত ঝাঁপ, গ্লাইডিং করা, মসৃণভাবে উড়ে চলা. See Volplane meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is volplane?
Volplane can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce volplane?
Volplane is pronounced /ˈvɒlpleɪn/.
What is the plural of volplane?
The plural of volplane is volplanes.

Words near volplane in the dictionary

  1. Volpi
  2. Volpino
  3. Volpino Italiano
  4. Volpinos
  5. Volpis
  6. volplane
  7. volplaned
  8. volplanes
  9. volplaning
  10. Volpone
  11. Volpones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: volplane (page history and authors); volplane (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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