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say it: ER-fraym
airframe is a noun meaning "the framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines)". It carries one recorded sense.
the framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for airframe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.