winglet (English, noun)
expansion: winglet (plural winglets)
Senses:
glosses: A little wing.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A winglike structure at a wingtip set at an angle to the plane of the wing designed to reduce drag by its effect on wingtip vortices.
glosses: The bastard wing or alula of a bird.
glosses: The pterygium of a weevil.
Forms:
form: winglets
tags: plural