dive brake

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   a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft

   Synonymsairbrake

   Broaderrestraint

Questions about dive brake

What does dive brake mean?

dive brake means "a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft".

What is another word for dive brake?

Close synonyms include airbrake. 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 dive brake a common word?

dive brake 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.