cruise-climb (English, verb)
expansion: cruise-climb (third-person singular simple present cruise-climbs, present participle cruise-climbing, simple past and past participle cruise-climbed)
Senses:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To slowly but continuously climb during cruise flight as the aircraft's weight decreases due to fuel burnoff (done because flight at higher altitudes is more efficient but requires a lighter aircraft).
tags: intransitive
usually
raw_tags: of an aircraft
Forms:
form: cruise-climbs
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cruise-climbing
tags: participle
present
form: cruise-climbed
tags: participle
past
form: cruise-climbed
tags: past
form: cruise climb
tags: alternative