lawn dart effect
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An effect observed in fighter aircraft pilots, where horizontal acceleration at more than 1 standard gravity causes extreme stimulation of the vestibular system and leads to the faulty perception that the aircraft is climbing.