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1. AA in A, n. View full entry 1909
...anti-aircraft; cf. ack-ack...
2. AAA in A, n. View full entry 1943
...anti-aircraft artillery; cf. triple-Atriple....
3. abeam, adv. View full entry 1789
...On a line at right angles to a ship's course; opposite the middle of a vessel. Later also of an aircraft. Cf. beam17....
4. aboard, adv. and prep. View full entry 1840
...orig. U.S. On or on to a train, aircraft, or other vehicle. Cf. on boardboard14a....
5. aboard, adv. and prep. View full entry 1752
...orig. U.S. In extended use: on, on to, or into (a train, bus, aircraft, etc.)....
6. abort, n. View full entry 1954
...orig. Aeronaut. A mission, procedure, or enterprise that is abandoned or curtailed before it has achieved its intended effect; the abandonment or curtailment of a mission, procedure, or enterprise; the...
7. abort, v. View full entry 1946
...intr. To abandon or fail to complete a launch, flight, or mission; to cancel or terminate a program or process before completion; (of a program or process) to stop suddenly before...
8. abort, v. View full entry 1951
...trans. To abandon (a launch, flight, or mission); to cancel or terminate (a program or process) before completion....
9. absolute altimeter in absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry 1930
...an altimeter which measures absolute altitude....
10. absolute altitude in absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry 1798
...altitude relative to sea level or some other reference level; (Aeronaut.) the altitude of an aircraft above the land or sea over which it is flying; cf. absolute height...
11. absolute ceiling in absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry 1918
...originally Aeronaut. the maximum altitude at which an aircraft can maintain horizontal flight in standard atmospheric conditions; (now usually) fig. a prescribed upper limit....
12. absolute height in absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry 1729
...height expressed in absolute terms, esp. height above sea level; (Aeronaut.) the altitude of an aircraft above the land or sea over which it is flying; cf. ...
13. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry 1916
...Esp. in the First World War (191418) and Second World War (193945): a pilot, aerial gunner, etc., who has shot down many enemy aircraft....
14. ack-ack, adj. and n. View full entry 1917
...An anti-aircraft gun, regiment, etc.; (also) anti-aircraft gunfire....
15. Ada, n.2 View full entry 1979
...(The name of) a high-level programming language used chiefly in real-time control systems, e.g. for aircraft navigation....
16. adjustable pitch in adjustable, adj. View full entry 1858
...a pitch of a propeller or screw which can be adjusted when it is at rest; freq. attrib....
17. aerial, adj. View full entry 1747
...Designating, relating to, or involved in travel through the air by means of aircraft....
18. aerial, adj. View full entry 1881
...Conducted by or from aircraft; carried out or achieved by means of aircraft; (also) relating to the air as a sphere of military operations....
19. aerial, adj. View full entry 1896
...Carried aboard an aircraft; (of a bomb, mine, torpedo, etc.) dropped or deployed from an aircraft....
20. aerial propeller in aerial, adj. View full entry 1884
...a propeller on a boat or aircraft which generates thrust by movement of air; cf. aerial screw...
