aerostation

American  

[air-uh-stey-shuhn] / ˌɛər əˈsteɪ ʃən /

noun

Aeronautics.

1. the science or art of operating aerostats.

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aerostation British  

/ ˈɛərəˌsteɪʃən /

noun

1. the science of operating lighter-than-air craft

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Etymology

Origin of aerostation

First recorded in 1775–85; aerostat + -ion

Example Sentences

Despite the obsolescence of the technology, Holmes keeps faith with what practitioners called "aerostation" – or at least he continues to value it as a metaphor.

From The Guardian

Dr. Benjamin, anecdote of, 407.Colored folks, curious national diversion of kicking, 398.Colquitt, a remark of, 419 acquainted with some principles of aerostation, ib.Columbia,

From Project Gutenberg

Apart from the question of dangers, which science, as we have seen, can reduce to a minimum—and apart also from the question of practical utility, of which we do not see much at present, yet of which we know not what may be derived in future—what are the probabilities of improvement in the art of ballooning, aerostation, or the means of traveling through the air in a given direction?

From Project Gutenberg

But since we have seen aerostation, the motive power of elastic vapors, the wonders of modern telegraphy, the destructive explosiveness of gunpowder, and even of a substance so harmless, unresisting, and inert as cotton, nothing in the way of mechanical achievement seems impossible, and it is hard to restrain the imagination from wandering forward a couple of generations to an epoch when our descendants shall have advanced as far beyond us in physical conquest, as we have marched beyond the trophies erected by our grandfathers.

From Project Gutenberg

Zirckel's "Sketches from and concerning the United States," 16.—Aerostation,

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