Terrain

//təˈɹeɪn//

"Terrain" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Boeing's safety experts have joined others in the industry to form an international task force to try to eliminate one particular kind of air crash known as controlled flight into terrain, CFIT.

When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.

This is awfully hilly terrain; I hope we don't screw up the transmission.

The rough terrain checked the progress of the hikers.

He wrote the article "Robotic Mining and Minerals on Martian Terrain."

When the flight crew has their aircraft under control, everything is working normally and yet it still crashes into the ground, that's a "Controlled Flight Into Terrain".

The Grassland theme in Heroes of Might and Magic II is my favourite terrain theme in all of HoMM.

We had to drive on narrow roads through hilly terrain.

The terrain on Mars appears very hospitable.

Unfamiliar terrain can be difficult to traverse.

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The race will be run over a variety of terrain, including grass and sand.

This approach requires the aircraft to stay at an altitude of at least 3000 feet MSL until crossing the VOR in order to maintain terrain clearance.

controlled flight into terrain

TOO LOW, TERRAIN

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