💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Control surface"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| airfoilnoun | A wing of an aircraft. |
| aerofoilnoun | British standard form of airfoil. [A structure shaped to produce lift when moving in air.] |
| surfacenoun | The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid. |
| elevatornoun | (Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A permanent construction with a built-in platform or cab that can be raised and lowered, used to transport people and goods, as between different floors of a building. |
| diving planenoun | (nautical) A moveable control surface on a submarine, used to control the depth and pitch of the submarine. |
| flight controlnoun | (aviation, countable) A system for controlling an aircraft's rotational or translational motion in one or more axes. |
| trim tabnoun | (aviation, nautical) A control surface set within or attached to a larger control surface that provides trim to obtain a desired attitude without constant inputs to the primary control surfaces (e.g., ailerons and rudders). |
| ruddervatornoun | (aviation) A hinged control surface combining the functions of rudder and elevator. |
| decknoun | (card games) A pack or set of playing cards. |
| elevonnoun | (aviation) A movable surface at the trailing edge of a tailless airplane (such as the space shuttle) that provides pitch and roll control. |
| control sticknoun | (aviation) A joystick. |
| jetevatornoun | (aerospace) A control surface used to redirect the exhaust from a rocket and thus change its direction of thrust. |
| compound controlnoun | (aviation) A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc. |
| flight controllernoun | (aviation) An air traffic controller |
| trimnoun | (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders. |
| control armnoun | (automotive) A nearly flat and roughly triangular suspension member that pivots in two places. |
| controlnoun | (countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something. |
| actuatornoun | A usually electric device that causes a mechanical device (i.e., a mechanism) to be switched on or off. For example; an electric motor that opens and closes a valve. |
| collective | Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body. |
| pushrodnoun | (automotive) A rod in a piston engine that actuates rocker arms above the cylinder head. |
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