aviation
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viˈeɪ noun
1.
the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft.
2.
military aircraft.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a. the art or science of flying aircraft |
| b. the design, production, and maintenance of aircraft | |
| 2. | (US) military aircraft collectively |
| [C19: from French, from Latin avis bird] | |
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Aviation
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
aviation
1866, from Fr. aviation, from L. avis "bird" (see aviary). Coined 1863 by Fr. aviation pioneer Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de La Landelle (1812-1886) in "Aviation ou Navigation aérienne."
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Example sentences
Icon aircraft has made aviation history before even finishing the final design of its first airplane.
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Civil aviation security exists to prevent criminal activity on aircraft and in airports.
However, the hazard of bird strikes have been known almost as long as the history of aviation.
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