Monoplane

adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An airplane that has a single pair of wings.

    "By the mid-1930s, designs for new fighters and bombers were almost all monoplane designs."

  2. 2
    an airplane with a single wing wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To fly in a monoplane. rare
Adjective
  1. 1
    Composed of, or relating to, a single plane (flat surface extending infinitely in all directions). not-comparable

Synonyms

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airplanemonoplanaruniplanar

Example

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"In 1874, Felix du Temple, built a monoplane that flew just a short hop down a hill with the help of a coal fired steam engine."

Etymology

From mono- + plane. The aviation sense was formed by analogy with biplane; compare French monoplan, as well as the earlier English aeroplane, multiplane, and triplane.

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