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Aviation

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

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eutectic

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An alloy or solution that has the lowest possible constant melting point.

ratiometer indicator

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An analog temperature measuring instrument in which the pointer deflection is proportional to the ratio between the current flowing in an internal reference circuit and that ...

dual-spool gas turbine engine

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An axial-flow turbine engine that has two compressors, each driven by its own stage or stages of turbines.

cam

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An eccentric, or lobe, on a rotating shaft that changes rotary motion into linear motion. A cam is mounted on the magnet shaft in a magneto to push upward on the insulated breaker ...

bungee cord

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An elastic cord made of small strips of rubber encased in a loosely braided cloth tube that holds and protects the rubber, yet allows it to stretch. The energy in a stretched ...