ground-effect machine

1. 1.

   a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines

   Synonymshovercraft

   Broadercraft

Questions about ground-effect machine

What does ground-effect machine mean?

ground-effect machine means "a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines".

What is another word for ground-effect machine?

Close synonyms include hovercraft. 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 ground-effect machine a common word?

ground-effect machine 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.