aeronautical

[ air-uh-naw-ti-kuhl, -not-i-kuhl ]

adjective

1. of aeronautics or aeronauts.

Other Words From

• aer·o·nau·ti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of aeronautical¹

aeronaut + -ical

Example Sentences

Tom Morey was one of Southern California’s finest surfers of the 1950s and early ’60s and, at the same time, a working jazz musician and an aeronautical engineer.

From Washington Post

Who has access to the tarmac side of our airports and other aeronautical facilities?

From The Daily Beast

What you've been doing in the aeronautical line, Matt, has aroused a good deal of interest all over the country.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1872 some experiments were made for the Aeronautical Society on the pressure of air on oblique planes.

From Project Gutenberg

That time in Paris when he tried to persuade you to give up the aeronautical plans was when I first began to mistrust him.

From Project Gutenberg

Bell was an old man by this time, busy with his aeronautical experiments in Nova Scotia.

From Project Gutenberg

In that year they took up the problem thoroughly, studying all the aeronautical information then in print.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• aerial
• floating
• soaring