Associations to the word «Airfoil»

Wiktionary

AIRFOIL, noun. (American spelling) A structure shaped to produce lift when moving in air.
AIRFOIL, noun. (American spelling) A wing of an aircraft.

Dictionary definition

AIRFOIL, noun. A device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope