aeronautics
/ˌɛɚ.oʊˈnɔ.tɪks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.10 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: aerodynamics, aviation"
- "Near-synonym: aeronavigation"
- ""Around the World in Eighty Days" once had so much appeal to the imagination that Jules Verne wrote a novel about it. The latest proposal is to girdle the globe in three months in a flying machine. The practicability of such a flight is here discussed by an expert. Mr. Woodhouse is a member of the Aero Club of America and managing editor of "Flying". ¶ When the Aero Club of America received the news that the Panama-Pacific International Exposition had decided to offer $300,000 in prize money for a ninety-day aircraft race around the world, no one connected with aeronautics laughed at the conception or called it the dream of a Verne or a Wells. A map of the course indicates that to circumaviate the globe will mean flights over mountains and deserts, through storms, and across seas. But formidable obstacles in all of these classifications have been surmounted before by airmen, and, of course, can be surmounted again."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: aéronautique, aeronauticus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɛɚ.oʊˈnɔ.tɪks/
- British English: /ˌɛə.ɹəʊˈnɔː.tɪks/