nacelle
IPA: nɑsˈɛɫ
noun
- (aviation)
- The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola.
- A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew.
- (archaic) The cockpit of an aircraft.
- (by extension)
- A hollow boat-shaped structure.
- An enclosure housing machinery or a motor.
- (electrical engineering) The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.
- (nautical) The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat.
- (road transport) A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle.
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Examples of "nacelle" in Sentences
- The nacelle forming a secondary fan nozzle.
- The engine nacelle was also woven into the flaps.
- And the size of the engine nacelles was unchanged.
- At the rear of each nacelle was a gunner position.
- At the front of each nacelle was a gunner's position.
- There is a difference between a nacelle and an engine.
- Previously, it appeared as a decal on the headlamp nacelle.
- A nacelle mounted by a pylon above and forwardly of a wing.
- A nacelle mounted by a pylon below and forwardly of a wing.
- The coolant header tank was in the forward nacelle, behind the propeller.
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