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Aviation

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

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pentagrid converter

Aviation; Aeronautics

A mixer tube used in a superheterodyne radio receiver. A pentagrid converter tube has five grids, a cathode, a plate, and a filament. The incoming radio-frequency signal is ...

boxing of paint

Aviation; Aeronautics

A mixing procedure in which the pigment in a can of paint is thoroughly mixed with the vehicle. The paint is poured back and forth between two containers until the pigment and the ...

amalgam

Aviation; Aeronautics

A mixture of different elements or ingredients that have been merged into a single body as a physical mixture, rather than a chemical compound. Concrete is an example of an ...

smog

Aviation; Aeronautics

A mixture of smoke and fog. Smog is a serious obstruction to visibility and is basically natural fog contaminated with industrial pollution.

ADI fluid

Aviation; Aeronautics

A mixture of water and methanol, which is injected into the carburetor of an aircraft reciprocating engine to prevent detonation when the engine is producing its maximum ...

MULTICOM

Aviation; Aeronautics

A mobile service not open to public correspondence, used to provide communications essential to conduct the activities being performed by or directed from private aircraft.

digitized image

Aviation; Aeronautics

A modified image picked up by a miniature TV camera in the end of a fiber optic probe. This image is converted into a digital electronic signal that eliminates unwanted portions ...