overflight
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
overflight (plural overflights)
- The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory.
- 1987 May 9, Bod Lederer, “US Denies AIDS Bio War with Contradictions”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
- Nicaragua has been investigating the possibility that the 1985 outbreak of dengue fever along its Honduran border may have resulted from the release of infected mosquitos by U.S. reconnaissance overflights.
Related terms edit
- flyover (noun)
- flyover (adj)
- flyover country
- flyover state
- flypast
- overfly
Translations edit
flight over a place
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