buttock line

English edit

Noun edit

buttock line (plural buttock lines)

(aviation, ship-building) A curve indicating the shape of an airfoil or nautical equivalent in a vertical plane parallel to the longitudinal axis of the craft or vessel.

Hypernyms edit

airfoil section

Coordinate terms edit

section, waterline

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