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noun
The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
The cockpit of an aircraft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
A hollow boat-shaped structure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
An enclosure housing machinery or a motor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: business, electrical, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: road, transport
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noun
a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: enclosure
History
PIE word *néh2us Borrowed from French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff; gondola (of a hot-air balloon, etc.); structure on an aircraft to house an engine”), Middle French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff”), from Old French nacele, from Late Latin naucella, nāvicella (“small boat or ship”), from Latin nāvis (“a ship”) (from Proto-Indo-European *néh2us (“a boat”)) + -ella (diminutive suffix). Cognates * Anglo-Norman naucele, naucle (“small boat”) * Late Latin nacella (“small boat”)
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