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dirigible
English
Etymology
From French dirigeable, from ballon dirigeable (“steerable balloon”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d???d??b??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d??.?.d??.b?l/
Noun
dirigible (plural dirigibles)
- (aviation) A self-propelled airship that can be steered.
Hyponyms
- blimp
- nonrigid
- rigid
- semirigid
- Zeppelin
Translations
Adjective
dirigible (comparative more dirigible, superlative most dirigible)
- steerable
Derived terms
- dirigibility
- indirigible
Translations
See also
- airship
- balloon
- barrage balloon
- blimp
- zeppelin, Zeppelin
- Wikipedia article on dirigibles
Spanish
Noun
dirigible m (plural dirigibles)
- dirigible
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nonrigid
English
Alternative forms
- non-rigid
Etymology
non- +? rigid
Adjective
nonrigid (not comparable)
- not rigid; flexible
- (of an airship) That maintains its shape only by internal gas pressure.
Related terms
- nonrigidity
Noun
nonrigid (plural nonrigids)
- (aviation) An airship that maintains its shape only by internal gas pressure.
Synonyms
- blimp
Hypernyms
- airship
- dirigible
Coordinate terms
- rigid
- semirigid
Usage notes
- dirigible is not a synonym, but a hypernym; it refers to all steerable self-propelled airships, whether rigid, semirigid, or nonrigid.
Anagrams
- Girondin
nonrigid From the web:
- what non-rigid transformation
- non rigid means
- what non-rigid
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- what are nonrigid transformations
- what does nonrigid
- what is non rigid in geometry
- non rigid motions
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