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Aviation

Dealing with vehicles or machines used in flight or propulsion through the air.

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transceiver

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of radio communications equipment in which all of the circuits for the receiver and the transmitter are contained in the same housing.

doubler

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of sheet metal used to strengthen and stiffen an aircraft skin at the location some component is to be attached. A doubler is normally riveted to the inside of the ...

magnetic shunt

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of soft iron placed across the air gap in a magnet used in an electrical measuring instrument to vary the amount of magnetic flux across the gap. The permeability of soft ...

magnet keeper

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of soft iron placed across the poles of a horseshoe permanent magnet when the magnet is not in use. The permeability of the soft iron is much greater than that of the air ...

keeper

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of soft iron placed across the poles of a magnet when the magnet is not being used. Magnetic energy is used to force lines of flux through the air between the poles, and ...

chamois skin

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of soft, pliable leather, from the skin of a chamois, a goat-like antelope. Chamois skin is used to filter gasoline. Gasoline will pass through a chamois skin, but water ...