vertical stabiliser

What does vertical stabiliser mean?

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

What is another word for vertical stabiliser?

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

vertical stabiliser 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vertical stabiliser come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.