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Heavier-than-air

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Weighing more than the volume of air which it displaces. comparative-only

    "And folks laughed at Santos Dumont, at the Wrights, and at all the other fellows, who said they could take a heavier-than-air machine, and skim above the clouds like a bird."

  2. 2
    Of, pertaining to, or using an aircraft which weighs more than the volume of air it displaces. comparative-only

    "Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk."

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to an aircraft heavier than the air it displaces wordnet

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