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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A control surface on an aircraft wing functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
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- noun An
aircraft control surface at the trailing edge of a wing that acts as anaileron (controlling movement around the longitudinal axis) and aflap (changing the chord line of the wing, thus affecting theangle of attack ).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[flap + (ail)eron.]
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