lifting body

noun

, Aeronautics.

1. an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.

lifting body

noun

1. a wingless aircraft or spacecraft that derives its aerodynamic lift from the shape of its body

Example Sentences

The yielding of a muscle, in all that straining, lifting body, might have ruined us.

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