a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft
2. another name for runway (sense 1)
3.
a strip of continuous aerial photographs
flight strip in American English
US
an emergency runway; airstrip
flight strip in American English
noun
1. Aeronautics
a.
a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft
b.
runway
2.
a series of continuous aerial reconnaissance photographs
Word origin
[1935–40]This word is first recorded in the period 1935–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bingo, complementation, hard core, roadblock, walk-through