buttock line

English

Noun

buttock line (plural buttock lines)

  1. (aviation, ship-building) A curve indicating the shape of an airfoil or nautical equivalent in a vertical plane parallel to the longitudinal axis of the craft or vessel.

Hypernyms

  • airfoil section

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