Airbus
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one.
"Before he and my mother were killed together in a holiday air-bus crash five years later, they had seen the new companies drive all competing oils off the market and those of us who had been in at the beginning apparently well set for life."
- 2 An aircraft produced by the Airbus consortium.
"The new plane was the first Airbus in the airline's fleet."
- 3 a subsonic jet airliner operated over short distances wordnet
- 1 A European multinational commercial aircraft manufacturer.
Example
More examples"The aerospace company Airbus Group recently completed the first flight of a glider it calls Perlan 2. The Perlan Project intends to use gliders to take measurements in the stratosphere. Scientists believe weather in the stratosphere affects the Earth’s climate more than they thought before."
Etymology
From air + bus.
Trade name, from air + bus.
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