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View synonyms for lifting body

lifting body

noun

, Aeronautics.
  1. an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.


lifting body

noun

  1. a wingless aircraft or spacecraft that derives its aerodynamic lift from the shape of its body
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The yielding of a muscle, in all that straining, lifting body, might have ruined us.

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