tail rotor

1. 1.

   rotor consisting of a rotating airfoil on the tail of a single-rotor helicopter; keeps the helicopter from spinning in the direction opposite to the rotation of the main rotor

   Synonymsanti-torque rotor

   Broaderrotor

Questions about tail rotor

What does tail rotor mean?

tail rotor means "rotor consisting of a rotating airfoil on the tail of a single-rotor helicopter; keeps the helicopter from spinning in the direction opposite to the rotation of the main rotor".

What is another word for tail rotor?

Close synonyms include anti-torque rotor. 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 rotor a common word?

tail rotor 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.