trailing edge

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   the rear edge of an airfoil

   Broaderedge

   Part ofairfoil

Questions about trailing edge

What does trailing edge mean?

trailing edge means "the rear edge of an airfoil".

Is trailing edge a common word?

trailing edge 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.