nacelle
nounUS, UK /nəˈsɛl/
Etymology PIE word *néh₂us Borrowed from French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff; gondola (of a hot-air balloon, etc.); structure on an aircraft to house an engine”), Middle French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff”), from Old French nacele, from Late Latin naucella, nāvicella (“small boat or ship”), from Latin nāvis (“a ship”) (from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“a boat”)) + -ella (diminutive suffix). Cognates * Anglo-Norman naucele, naucle (“small boat”) * Late Latin nacella (“small boat”)
8 senses
- 1The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible…
- 2A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft…
- 3The cockpit of an aircraft.
- 4A hollow boat-shaped structure.
- 5An enclosure housing machinery or a motor.
- 6The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.
- 7The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat.
- 8A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a…
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola.
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew.
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Archaic The cockpit of an aircraft.
Broadly A hollow boat-shaped structure.
Broadly An enclosure housing machinery or a motor.
Business, Electrical, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Broadly The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.