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  • adjective Without propellers.

Etymologies

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propeller +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The hope is that in the future propellerless, fish-like submarines could carry out a range of tasks, such as mapping oceans, surveying shipwrecks or sweeping for mines, with more agility and speed than current autonomous underwater vehicles AUVs controlled by propellers.

    Robot Fins to Propel Submarines | Impact Lab 2007

  • Dr Tangorra said the team was now looking in even more detail at the bluegill sunfish to create propellerless AUVs.

    Robot Fins to Propel Submarines | Impact Lab 2007

  • The distinctive swimming technique of a bony fish is being used to develop agile, propellerless submarines.

    Robot Fins to Propel Submarines | Impact Lab 2007

  • So I guess by that theory, not a bacterium goes propellerless without God personally stepping in to do something about it.

    George Coyne: 'Science Does Not Need God. Or Does It? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Boarding Doc’s newest aircraft — a propellerless flying wing powered by a combustible gas of the bronze man’s invention, capable of speeds of over 500 miles per hour and able to hover in mid-air like a gyrocopter — the team makes for the Kilimanjaro region to rescue their comrade and help the natives beat back the invasion.

    LAND OF LONG JUJU by Kenneth Robeson (Bantam 1970) 2010

  • Boarding Doc’s newest aircraft — a propellerless flying wing powered by a combustible gas of the bronze man’s invention, capable of speeds of over 500 miles per hour and able to hover in mid-air like a gyrocopter — the team makes for the Kilimanjaro region to rescue their comrade and help the natives beat back the invasion.

    Archive 2010-04-04 2010

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