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Synonyms

lifting body

American  

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 British  

noun

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

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The strange craft was the Air Force SV-5D, an experimental forerunner of a larger, manned "lifting body" that scientists believe will be equally at home in space and in the atmosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

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