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

  • noun The science of the motion and equilibrium of air and other gases, comprising aerodynamics and aerostatics.

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  • noun physics The branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of gases; it comprises aerostatics and aerodynamics
  • noun Plural form of aeromechanic.

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  • noun the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of gases (especially air) and their effects on bodies in the flow

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Examples

  • The NASA committee concluded that there were “no known aeromechanics phenomena that would stop the safe and orderly development and deployment of the V-22.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • The NASA committee concluded that there were “no known aeromechanics phenomena that would stop the safe and orderly development and deployment of the V-22.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • The NASA committee concluded that there were “no known aeromechanics phenomena that would stop the safe and orderly development and deployment of the V-22.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • When thrown with little or no spin, a baseball bobs about in seemingly random ways as the seam intermittently breaks the boundary layer of air around the ball in flight, altering the aeromechanics and causing a deflection to its trajectory.

    Soccer's Knuckleball 2006

  • Cleared fan aeromechanics through a wide operating range, in support of current testing at both Evendale and the USAF Arnold Engineering Development

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Cleared fan aeromechanics through a wide operating range, in support of current testing at both Evendale and the USAF Arnold Engineering Development

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • Cleared fan aeromechanics through a wide operating range, in support of current testing at both Evendale and the USAF Arnold Engineering Development

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • Cleared fan aeromechanics through a wide operating range, in support of current testing at both Evendale and the USAF Arnold Engineering Development

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • Cleared fan aeromechanics through a wide operating range, in support of current testing at both Evendale and the USAF Arnold Engineering Development

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • Knowledge of added body masses that interact with fluid is necessary in various research and applied tasks of hydro - and aeromechanics: steady and unsteady motion of rigid bodies, total vibration of bodies in fluid, local vibration of the external plating of different structures.

    ebookshare 2009

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