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defensive spiral

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English

Syllables
de-fen-sive spi-ral
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A last-resort defensive maneuver in dogfighting used by an aircraft with critically-low kinetic energy, consisting of a rolling scissors performed straight down, using gravity to supply the kinetic energy needed to continue maneuvering, while attempting to either slow down enough to get behind the attacker or else trick the attacker into crashing into the ground.

Inflected Forms

defensive spirals (plural)

Questions

What does defensive spiral mean?
A last-resort defensive maneuver in dogfighting used by an aircraft with critically-low kinetic energy, consisting of a rolling scissors performed straight down, using gravity to supply the kinetic energy needed to continue maneuvering, while attempting to either slow down enough to get behind the attacker or else trick the attacker into crashing into the ground.

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