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aircraft meaning

EN[ɛəkɹɑː̩ft] [ɛ:kɹɑː̩ft] [ɛəɹkɹæft] [ɛ:ɹkɹæft]
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WAircraft
  • An aircraft is a machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet.
  • The human activity that surrounds aircraft is called aviation. Crewed aircraft are flown by an onboard pilot, but unmanned aerial vehicles may be remotely controlled or self-controlled by onboard computers.
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    Definition of aircraft in English Dictionary

  • NounSUF-craft
    1. A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • The world airline fleet of long-range aircraft consists almost entirely of widebodies.
        • Four aircraft - including two air cranes - are currently waterbombing the area, [ … ] .
        • The world airline fleet of long-range aircraft consists almost entirely of wide-bodies.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Morphemes
        • Suffixes
          • Words by suffix
            • Words suffixed with -craft
        • Nouns
          • Noun forms
            • Plurals
              • Irregular plurals
                • Invariant nouns
              • Noun plural forms
                • Irregular plurals
                  • Invariant nouns
              • Invariant nouns
                • Irregular plurals
                  • Invariant nouns
                  • Nouns with irregular plurals
                    • Invariant nouns
                    • Countable nouns
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                  5. en aircraftsmen
                  Source: Wiktionary

                  Meaning of aircraft for the defined word.

                  Grammatically, this word "aircraft" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a noun form, an invariant noun, an irregular plural, a nouns with irregular plural and a countable noun.
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