airfoil

Questions about airfoil

What is another word for airfoil?

It depends which airfoil you mean. In the sense “a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight”, the synonyms are aerofoil, control surface, surface. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of airfoil?

WordNet records no antonym for airfoil. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for airfoil come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of airfoil

• Full entry for airfoilAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for airfoilWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.