vertical stabilizer

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noun Aeronautics.

the fixed vertical surface of an aircraft empennage, to which the rudder is hinged.

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Also called fin, vertical fin .

Words nearby vertical stabilizer

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How to use vertical stabilizer in a sentence

Two police assigned to the apartment on a detail were doing a “vertical patrol” up the stairs when the door opened.
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They structured themselves not in vertical hierarchies but in networks, each member responding to conditions on the ground.
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Abramson is also open, “in theory,” to the idea of interviewing high-profile figures for the new vertical.
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There was one very large and easily identifiable piece of debris floating, the vertical stabilizer.
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The hybrid aircraft have a vertical takeoff and landing capability.
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This takes at first the crude device of a couple of vertical lines attached to the head (see Fig. 4).
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It is of the vertical kind, and stands on a shallow square tank, which forms the hot well.
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However, in a month, when everything was about five degrees off the vertical, notice began to be taken.
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He can not make a record of what he sees as long as the element of horizontal and vertical distance is not clearly in mind.
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But the singular fact exists that in the human trunk the valves occur in the horizontal and are absent from the vertical veins.
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British Dictionary definitions for vertical stabilizer

vertical stabilizer

noun

the US name for fin 1 (def. 3a)

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