control surface

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noun

any movable airfoil, as a rudder, flap, or aileron, for guiding or controlling an aircraft or missile in flight.

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Origin of control surface

First recorded in 1915–20

Words nearby control surface

control point, control rocket, control rod, control room, control stick, control surface, control survey, control syringe, control tower, control unit, control variable

How to use control surface in a sentence

It’s much easier to get to work with a controller with buttons pre-mapped to the software’s functions rather than programming a control surface to work in a complex workflow.
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From there we took the train to Nice, France, but the French border control caught us and sent us back to Italy.
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Spin control began, Florida-style: the opinion only covers some counties, some people, some times.
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He seemed by all appearances perfectly happy to let the Republicans control the state senate.
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The more resources and education society becomes equipped with, the fewer stories like yours will surface.
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The police cannot ultimately control public opinion unilaterally.
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Solely over one man therein thou hast quite absolute control.
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First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.
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Some of those halls that Mr. Meadow Mouse mentioned ran right out beneath the surface of the garden.
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In a few minutes, however, he had it again under control, and they soon reached the berg.
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It depends upon the fact that bile acids lower surface tension.
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British Dictionary definitions for control surface

control surface

noun

a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket

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