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Empennage

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The tail assembly of an aircraft.
  2. 2
    the rear part of an aircraft wordnet
  3. 3
    The feathers of an arrow or the tail fins of a bomb or rocket used to stabilize the longitudinal axis of the projectile parallel to the flight path.

Etymology

From French empennage (“feathers of an arrow”).

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