autogiro
Meaning of autogiro
noun
a form of aircraft with freely rotating horizontal blades and a propeller. It differs from a helicopter in that the blades are not powered but rotate in the slipstream, propulsion being by a conventional mounted engine.
1920s: from Spanish, from auto- ‘self’ + giro ‘gyration’.
Information about autogiro
- It is a name.
- The plural form of autogiro is: autogiros.
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Hyphenation of autogiro
au-to-giro
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- autogiro is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
autogiro synonyms
Meaning autogyro:
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