Nacelle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A separate streamlined enclosure on an aircraft for sheltering the crew or cargo or housing an engine.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine, cargo, or crew.
  • n. The part between the tower and rotor of a wind turbine.
  • n. The compartment that holds passengers on a hot-air balloon, a dirigible, or an aerostat; a gondola.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small boat.
  • n. The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.
  • n. A streamlined enclosure on an airplane, as for the engine or for the cargo or passengers; -- formerly used to refer to the boatlike, inclosed body of an airplane which is usually now called the fuselage, and now referring mostly to the enclosure for the engine.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    enclosure   
    Variant
    fuselage   
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