dive brake

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noun Aeronautics.

a flap deployed from the wings or fuselage of an aircraft, as a dive bomber or sailplane, that increases drag to permit a relatively steep angle of descent without a dangerous buildup in speed.

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Origin of dive brake

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby dive brake

divaricator, dive, dive-bomb, dive bomber, dive bombing, dive brake, Divehi, divemaster, diver, diverbium, diverge

How to use dive brake in a sentence

Not even after its parent company, the Soviet Union, took a dive in 1991.
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When used improperly those encouraging statistics take a nose dive.
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The young goslings' first major life event is to cliff dive down to their parents, as was captured here by BBC cameras.
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We wanted to create a dedicated hub where people can dive into it and get all this commentary on the news.
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They tobogganed down hills without a brake at the imminent peril of their lives.
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Then came the end: the Titanic, with a low long slanting dive went down and with her Thomas Andrews.
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If he is injured while running a car from a defective brake of which he had knowledge, he cannot recover.
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He'll immediately throw down his bunch of flowers and dive despairingly into the moat.
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Then he went back, eased off the emergency brake, grabbed a good handhold and strained forward.
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British Dictionary definitions for dive brake

dive brake

noun

a flap or spoiler extended from the wings of a ground-attack aircraft for controlling a dive

another name for air brake

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