Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A major structural member of an aircraft fuselage, running from front to rear.

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  • noun A thin strip of wood or metal, to which the skin of an aircraft is fastened.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French, beam, from long, long, from Latin longus; see del- in Indo-European roots.]

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Borrowing from French.

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Examples

  • The problem is with a lodge strip of metal called the longeron, which essentially holds the fuselage together.

    CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2007 2007

  • In fact, they're the ones who determined the longeron was the problem.

    Defense Industry Daily 2009

  • Mostholidaying bird-lovers have their own favourites on their lists - or rather no longeron their lists.

    Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

  • Mostholidaying bird-lovers have their own favourites on their lists - or rather no longeron their lists.

    Books 2009

  • Major Stephen Stillwell, a Missouri Air Guard pilot, was flying his F-15, attempting an 8G turn at 500 miles an hour when there was a major structural failure in something called the longeron.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2008 2008

  • She told her also, now entirely reassured by Aggie's voice, that they had been much longeron the way than they had expected, and were now getting anxious.

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

  • Patria repaired the aircraft using structures sourced from a damaged F-18C, with major activities having included fitting a new starboard wing, engine intake and control surfaces, and making repairs to the aircraft's centre fuselage longeron.

    HEADLINES 2010

  • Patria repaired the aircraft using structures sourced from a damaged F-18C, with major activities having included fitting a new starboard wing, engine intake and control surfaces, and making repairs to the aircraft's centre fuselage longeron.

    HEADLINES 2010

  • Patria repaired the aircraft using structures sourced from a damaged F-18C, with major activities having included fitting a new starboard wing, engine intake and control surfaces, and making repairs to the aircraft's centre fuselage longeron.

    HEADLINES 2010

  • (DAS) subsidiary has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for the V-22 Osprey titanium longeron assemblies.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

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