empennage
English edit
Etymology edit
French empennage (“feathers of an arrow”)
Noun edit
empennage (plural empennages)
- The tail assembly of an aircraft.
- The feathers of an arrow or the tail fins of a bomb or rocket used to stabilize the longitudinal axis of the projectile parallel to the flight path.
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
empennage f (plural empennages)
Further reading edit
- “empennage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.