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spoiler: see airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. ..... Click the link for more information. . spoiler 1. a device fitted to an aircraft wing to increase drag and reduce lift. It is usually extended into the airflow to assist descent and banking 2. a similar device fitted to a car spoiler [′spȯi·lər] (aerospace engineering) A plate, series of plates, comb, tube, bar, or other device that projects into the airstream about a body to break up or spoil the smoothness of the flow, especially such a device that projects from the upper surface of an airfoil, giving an increased drag and a decreased lift. (electromagnetism) Rod grating mounted on a parabolic reflector to change the pencil-beam pattern of the reflector to a cosecant-squared pattern; rotating the reflector and grating 90° with respect to the feed antenna changes one pattern to the other.
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| Yet man can mar such works with his rude taste, Like some sad spoiler of a virgin’s fame. My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized. The red fires died slowly down, within the Castle, and presently the shell grew nearly black outside; the angry glare that shone out through the broken arches and innumerable sashless windows, now, reproduced the aspect which the Castle must have borne in the old time when the French spoilers saw the monster bonfire which they had made there fading and spoiling toward extinction. |
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