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Dealing with vehicles or machines used in flight or propulsion through the air.
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conduction
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The transfer of heat which requires physical contact between an object that has a large amount of heat energy and one that has a smaller amount of heat energy.
convection
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The process by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid (gas or liquid).
corrosion
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The deterioration of metal by chemical or electrochemical attack.
cosine (cos)
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A trigonometric function comparing two sides of a right triangle as follows: Cos = adjacent side hypotenuse
coulomb
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A measure of electrical output. One coulomb is 6.24 × 10 18 electrons.
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