English Explanatory Dictionary

empennage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The tail assembly of an aircraft.
  2. 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.

Word forms

empennage empennages

Etymology

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

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