| 单词 | air position |
| 释义 | > as lemmasair position air position n. (a) Military the strategic aerial position held by an attacking or defending force (cf. position n. 3b); (b) Aeronautics the position that an aircraft would reach in a given time if flying in motionless air. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > tactical position air position1917 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > position air position1917 1917 F. A. Collins Air Man vi. 140 The English had not chosen their battlefield, or rather air-position, and thus fought at a disadvantage. 1937 D. C. T. Bennett Compl. Air Navigator v. 154 The difference of the air position so obtained in relation to the ground position (i.e. the departure point) is the wind effect for the total time. 1961 Geogr. Rev. 51 212 This course represents the connected series of ground-speed-true-course vectors each perpendicular to its attendant air position curve. 2001 C. Chant Air War in Falklands 1982 v. 63 The British air position over the landing was hampered by the fact that the two British aircraft carriers had been pulled back. < as lemmas |
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