anti-torque rotor

1. 1.

   rotor consisting of a rotating airfoil on the tail of a single-rotor helicopter; keeps the helicopter from spinning in the direction opposite to the rotation of the main rotor

   Synonymstail rotor

   Broaderrotor

Questions about anti-torque rotor

What does anti-torque rotor mean?

anti-torque rotor means "rotor consisting of a rotating airfoil on the tail of a single-rotor helicopter; keeps the helicopter from spinning in the direction opposite to the rotation of the main rotor".

What is another word for anti-torque rotor?

Close synonyms include tail rotor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anti-torque rotor a common word?

anti-torque rotor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.