ultralight
Americanadjective
noun
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something that is ultralight.
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a small, light, inexpensive single-seat airplane that is essentially a motorized hang glider.
Etymology
Origin of ultralight
Example Sentences
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Leng engineered an ultralight, electric-powered vertical takeoff and landing aircraft known as an eVTOL.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
If ultralight bosons exist, they can extract rotational energy from black holes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2025
Last week, we reported on the Pivotal BlackFly, the first series-produced ultralight eVTOL to reach the consumer market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
That allowed the team to simulate how defects in magnesium alloys form, grow, and move, an advance that should help spur the development of ultralight materials for fuel-efficient cars and airplanes.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 13, 2023
Only the unique combination of the two of them could have produced the silk sleigh: a sleek, ultralight craft buoyed by ulola gas.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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