stabilizer
15
6.2
- noun
- /ˈsteɪbɪˌlaɪzər/
- Specialized
:
estabilizador
- The aircraft's horizontal stabilizer played a crucial role in maintaining its balance during turbulence.
- horizontal stabilizer
- vertical stabilizer
- tail stabilizer
Examples
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Frame #65 is an early P-51 Mustang identifiable by its vertical stabilizer.
Blog text (34) -
It was simple, almost featureless, a fat, wedge-shaped lifting body, with a tall stabilizer at the stern.
Fiction book (1990) -
A rear stabilizer bow would help.
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This is a flight stabilizer.
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Possible damage to rudder power, and it looks like we have stabilizer problems.
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Mr. Ferris raised the rear stabilizer.
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China will produce tail stabilizers, and Taiwan will participate in the design and production of the cabin.
Academic text (1996) -
We've lost stabilizer rotor control, I can't hold it!
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Incredibly, airframe damage was pretty minor—a few small creases on the wings, ailerons, and horizontal stabilizer.
Blog text (13) -
The pilot checked the vertical stabilizer to ensure proper control of the plane's motion.
Synonyms
2
8.1
A curved shape like a wing or blade that makes lift when it moves through air
1
6.7
A fixed flat part at the tail of a plane that keeps the nose steady
1
5.9
Upright part of an airplane tail that helps keep the plane pointing straight during flight
A shaped surface like a wing or blade that makes lift when it moves through air
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.7
A fixed flat part at the tail of a plane that keeps the nose steady
- Specialized
1
5.9
Upright part of an airplane tail that helps keep the plane pointing straight during flight
How Stabilizing
- Specialized
1
5.9
- Specialized
1
6.7
- Specialized
15
6.2
- Specialized
13
8.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stabilizer comes from the Latin stabilis 'steady' and the ending -izer means 'something that makes'. On a plane, the stabilizer is a fixed surface that keeps the plane steady in flight.