FLAP

Flap

Flaps are devices used to improve the lift characteristics of a wing and are mounted on the trailing edges of the wings of a fixed-wing aircraft to reduce the speed at which the aircraft can be safely flown and to increase the angle of descent for landing. They shorten takeoff and landing distances. Flaps do this by lowering the stall speed and increasing the drag.

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flap

Noun

  1. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  2. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
  3. An upset, stir, scandal or controversy
  4. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
  5. A disease in the lips of horses.
  6. A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
  7. A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  8. Vagina.

Verb

  1. To move (something broad and loose) back and forth.
    The crow slowly flapped its wings.
  1. To move loosely back and forth.
    The flag flapped in the breeze.


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