power dive

1. 1.

   a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine

   Broaderdive

Questions about power dive

What does power dive mean?

power dive means "a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine".

Is power dive a common word?

power dive 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.