landing flap

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   a flap on the underside of the wing that is lowered to slow the plane for landing

   Broaderflap

Questions about landing flap

What does landing flap mean?

landing flap means "a flap on the underside of the wing that is lowered to slow the plane for landing".

Is landing flap a common word?

landing flap 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.