tail fin

1. 1.

   a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane

   Synonymsvertical stabilizervertical stabiliservertical fintailfin

   Broaderstabilizer

   Part ofvertical tail
2. 2.

   one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile

   Synonymstailfinfin

   Broaderdecoration

   Part ofcar
3. 3.

   the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates

   Synonymscaudal fin

   Broaderfin

   Narrowerheterocercal finhomocercal fin

   Part offish

Questions about tail fin

What does tail fin mean?

tail fin means "a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for tail fin?

Close synonyms include vertical stabilizer, vertical stabiliser, vertical fin, tailfin, tailfin. 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 tail fin a common word?

tail fin is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.