aerostation
See also: aérostation
English
editEtymology
editCompare French aérostation, the art of using aerostats.
Noun
editaerostation (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Aerial navigation; the act or science of raising and guiding balloons in the air.
- (obsolete) The science of weighing air; aerostatics.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “aerostation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)