pitching moment
noun
: a moment tending to rotate an airplane or airfoil about its lateral axis
Word History
Etymology
from present participle of pitch entry 3
- lost ball
- lost cause
- lost for words
- lost ground
- lost heart
- lost in the mail
- lost in the mists of time
- lost in the shuffle
- lost in thought
- lost it
- lost motion
- lost my train of thought
- lost on
- lost one's cool
- lost one's heart
- lost one's heart (to)
- lost one's heart to
- lost one's lunch
- lost one's temper
- lost out
- lost river
- lost soul
- lost the initiative
- lost to
- lost touch with reality