nacelles

Meaning of nacelles

plural noun
  1. a streamlined casing on the outside of an aircraft or motor vehicle, especially one housing an aircraft engine.
    a grey aircraft with NAVY painted on the engine nacelles

early 20th century (originally denoting the car of an airship): from French, from late Latin navicella, diminutive of Latin navis ‘ship’.

Information about nacelles

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of nacelles is: nacelle.
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Hyphenation of nacelles

na-celles

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • nacelles is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with nacelles

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