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Vinony

monoplane

noun

  1. aircraft with single fixed wing
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From mono- + plane. The aviation sense was formed by analogy with biplane; compare French monoplan, as well as the earlier English aeroplane, multiplane, and triplane.

  1. Composed of, or relating to, a single plane (flat surface extending infinitely in all directions).

noun

Etymology: From mono- + plane. The aviation sense was formed by analogy with biplane; compare French monoplan, as well as the earlier English aeroplane, multiplane, and triplane.

  1. An airplane that has a single pair of wings.

    “By the mid-1930s, designs for new fighters and bombers were almost all monoplane designs.”

verb

Etymology: From mono- + plane. The aviation sense was formed by analogy with biplane; compare French monoplan, as well as the earlier English aeroplane, multiplane, and triplane.

  1. To fly in a monoplane.