aeronautics

See also: aeronàutics

English

Etymology

From French aéronautique.

Noun

aeronautics (uncountable)

1. The design, construction, mathematics and mechanics of aircraft and other flying objects
2. The theory and practice of aircraft navigation

Hypernyms

• aerospace

Related terms

• aeronautical
• aeronautic
• aeronaut
• astronautics

Translations

mechanics and science of aircraft

• Arabic: عِلْم اَلطَّيَرَان‎ m (ʿilm aṭ-ṭayarān)
• Asturian: aeronáutica f
• Bulgarian: въздухоплаване (bg) n (vǎzduhoplávane), аеронавтика f (aeronávtika)
• Catalan: aeronàutica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 航空學 (zh), 航空学 (zh) (hángkōngxué), 航空術 (zh), 航空术 (zh) (hángkōngshù)

• Esperanto: aeronaŭtiko
• French: aéronautique (fr) f
• Galician: aeronáutica f
• German: Luftfahrt (de) f
• Interlingue: aeronautica
• Italian: aeronautica (it) f
• Japanese: 航空学 (こうくうがく, kōkūgaku)

• Malay: aeronautik (ms), kaji terbang
• Occitan: aeronautica (oc) f
• Persian: هوانوردی‎ (fa) (havānavardi)
• Portuguese: aeronáutica (pt) f
• Romanian: aeronautică (ro) f
• Russian: воздухопла́вание (ru) n (vozduxoplávanije), аэрона́втика (ru) f (aeronávtika), лётное де́ло n (ljótnoje délo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ваздухопловство n, зракопловство n аеронаутика f

  Roman: vazduhoplovstvo n, zrakoplovstvo (sh) n, aeronautika (sh) f

• Spanish: aeronáutica (es) f
• Swedish: aeronautik (sv)

theory and practice of aircraft navigation

• Esperanto: aerveturado

• Irish: aerloingseoireacht f

See also

• avionics