vertical fin

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsvertical stabilizervertical stabilisertail fintailfin

   Broaderstabilizer

   Part ofvertical tail

Questions about vertical fin

What does vertical fin mean?

vertical fin means "a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane".

What is another word for vertical fin?

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

vertical fin 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.