aerodyne

noun

Definition of aerodynenext
as in aircraft

Related Words

Relevance

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for aerodyne
  1. aircraft
  2. airframe
  3. airship
  4. airplane
  5. ship
  6. plane
  7. helicopter
  8. tractor
Noun
  • The system provides information about an aircraft’s attitude, heading and position to flight-critical systems.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The Federal Aviation Administration told CBS News and Politico that the vehicle doesn’t meet its definition of an aircraft, meaning the agency wouldn’t need to certify it as airworthy.
    — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of aircraft
Noun
  • In the event of an emergency, a rocket deploys a nylon parachute from the airframe in seconds, allowing the plane to land safely.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026
  • If successful, each B-52 should be capable of carrying similar payloads of LRASM as JASSM, which currently stands at around 20 per airframe.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of airframe
Noun
  • The team continuously received the returning light while the airship drifted.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Brown says the company plans a blimp that can stay aloft for 24 hours or more within a year, which raises the question of what an advertising airship does at night.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of airship
Noun
  • Starlink services were cut off for objects that traveled more than 100 mph, impacting the capabilities of Ukraine’s drones, airplanes and helicopters, a source familiar with the matter told The Hill.
    — Suryatapa Chakraborty, The Hill, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Multiple resources were called in on the night of the shooting, including SWAT, K-9 teams, patrol officers, drones, a Denver Police Department helicopter and a Colorado State Patrol airplane.
    — Jack Lowenstein, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of airplane
Noun
  • The ship’s 21 crew members were safely evacuated and no injuries were reported, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Iran appears to be targeting vessels conducting ship-to-ship oil transfers around the Strait of Hormuz, according to a military institute.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of ship
Noun
  • An expedition to find evidence of Amelia Earhart’s missing plane near a remote island in the South Pacific has come up empty, researchers said Sunday.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Well outside Cuba’s territorial waters, Cuban MiGs destroyed two of the civilian planes with air-to-air missiles, killing the four occupants, the complaint said.
    — David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of plane
Noun
  • An operation in Kenscoff In the mists of the steep hills that ring southern Port-au-Prince, CNN saw one Task Force operation where helicopters manned by foreign contractors assaulted gang positions, and drones detonated amid the clatter of gunfire.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • An additional helicopter will be deployed later today, according to the Coast Guard.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of helicopter
Noun
  • Trump’s obsession with building monuments to himself won’t help a farmer in Iowa put diesel in his tractor.
    — S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Three masked men stole about five pallets of beef worth roughly $40,000 from a tractor-trailer in Northeast Philadelphia early Tuesday, police said.
    — Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of tractor
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

aerodromes
aerodyne
aerodynes
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Aerodyne.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aerodyne. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

Copy Citation
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of jilt

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'Can' vs. 'May'

'Affect' vs. 'Effect'

More Commonly Mispronounced Words

Is it 'nerve-racking' or 'nerve-wracking'?
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Did 'orange' the fruit or the color come first?

Even More Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
artwork of illustrated limes with the text limes and smile with an arrow connecting the two words
Quiz: Spot the Anagram! Scramble these words to find new words with the e...
See All