empennage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 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
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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.