inboard
Use Inboard in a sentence
adjective
1.
located nearer the longitudinal axis or center, as of an airplane: the inboard section of a wing.
2.
located inside a hull or aircraft: a motorboat with an inboard engine.
3.
(of a motorboat) having the motor inboard.
adverb
4.
inside or toward the longitudinal axis or center of a hull, aircraft, machine, etc. Compare outboard ( def 4 ).
noun
5.
an inboard motor.
6.
a boat equipped with an inboard motor.
Origin:
1840–50; orig. phrase in board
1840–50; orig. phrase in board
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| —adj | |
| 1. | Compare outboard (esp of a boat's motor or engine) situated within the hull |
| 2. | situated between the wing tip of an aircraft and its fuselage: an inboard engine |
| —adv | |
| 3. | towards the centre line of or within a vessel, aircraft, etc |
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Example sentences
They are powered by a variety of outboard, stern drive, and inboard engines.
For power, of course, a standard inboard may not do.
The wings had to be removed and dismantled into inboard and outboard portions, and the engines had to be taken out of the wings.
It has large, four-wheel disc brakes and the rears are inboard, mounted on the differential case.
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