See split S on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "Named for the resemblance of the aircraft's flightpath to the upper or lower half of the letter S (an aircraft performing two split Ses in sequence, with the first split S leading immediately into the second, would trace out a flightpath in the shape of a vertical S).", "forms": [ { "form": "split Ses", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "es" }, "expansion": "split S (plural split Ses)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms derived from the shape of letters", "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Aviation" ], "glosses": [ "An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft, starting from upright level flight, rolls inverted and then performs one-half of an inside loop, ending up in upright level flight in the opposite direction at a lower altitude; equivalent to an Immelmann turn (modern sense) performed in reverse." ], "links": [ [ "aviation", "aviation" ], [ "aerobatic", "aerobatic" ], [ "maneuver", "maneuver" ], [ "aircraft", "aircraft" ], [ "inverted", "inverted" ], [ "loop", "loop" ], [ "altitude", "altitude" ], [ "Immelmann turn", "Immelmann turn" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(aviation) An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft, starting from upright level flight, rolls inverted and then performs one-half of an inside loop, ending up in upright level flight in the opposite direction at a lower altitude; equivalent to an Immelmann turn (modern sense) performed in reverse." ], "topics": [ "aeronautics", "aerospace", "aviation", "business", "engineering", "natural-sciences", "physical-sciences" ], "wikipedia": [ "split S" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "split-S" } ], "word": "split S" }
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