Autogyro

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An aircraft in which lift is provided by unpowered rotating wings and thrust is provided by a conventional propeller.
  2. 2
    an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller wordnet

Synonyms

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autogiroautogirogyroplane

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"Juan de la Cierva invented the autogyro and the principles to make a helicopter work."

Etymology

From auto- and gyro-, from latinized forms of Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”) and γῦρος (gûros, “circle, gyre”), a variant of earlier Spanish autogiro, from the same roots, coined by Juan de la Cierva c. 1920.

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