Definitions for aileron

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aileron ai·ler·on

Spelling: [ey-luh-ron]

IPA: /ˈeɪ ləˌrɒn/

Aileron is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 261 anagrams from letters in aileron (aeilnor).

Definitions for aileron

noun

1. Aeronautics. a movable surface, usually near the trailing edge of a wing, that controls the roll of the airframe or effects maneuvers, as banks and the like.
2. a wall at the end of a roof with a single slope, as that of a church aisle.

Origin of aileron

1905-10; French, equivalent to ail(e) (see aisle) + -eron diminutive suffix

Examples for aileron

If one wing tends to dip, the aileron on that side is depressed.

He slid his thumb across the black gun button as he set his windbreaker's edge on a line with Allison's aileron slit.

In that way I depress the aileron on the side I want to sail.

He closed his mouth firmly and fixed his eyes on the aileron slit ahead.

Why, they couldn't tell an aileron from an elevator if it was to save their lives!

Wire, aileron Gap—A wire connecting top and bottom ailerons.

Stan opened up and saw an aileron flutter away from the plummeting fighter.

They shot away my aileron control, and we were in a very bad way.

Don't slack this, or some gusty day the pilot may unexpectedly find himself minus the aileron control.

The part of the wing which can be warped is called the aileron.