shock stall (English, noun)
expansion: shock stall (plural shock stalls)
Senses:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A stall (“sudden loss of lift”) caused when the airflow over an aircraft's wings is disturbed by shock waves that occurs at a specific Mach number when the aircraft is accelerating to transonic speeds.
Forms:
form: shock stalls
tags: plural
form: shockstall
tags: alternative
form: shock-stall
tags: alternative