sweepback


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sweepback

[′swēp‚bak]
(aerospace engineering)
The backward slant of a leading or trailing edge of an airfoil.
The amount of this slant, expressed as the angle between a line perpendicular to the plane of symmetry and a reference line in the airfoil.
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