nacelle
English
[edit]Etymology
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Borrowed from French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff; gondola (of a hot-air balloon, etc.); structure on an aircraft to house an engine”), Middle French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff”), from Old French nacele, from Late Latin naucella, nāvicella (“small boat or ship”), from Latin nāvis (“a ship”) (from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“a boat”)) + -ella (diminutive suffix).[1]
cognates
- Anglo-Norman naucele, naucle (“small boat”)
- Late Latin nacella (“small boat”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /nəˈsɛl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛl
- Hyphenation: na‧celle
Noun
[edit]nacelle (plural nacelles)
- (aviation)
- The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola.
- A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew.
- (archaic) The cockpit of an aircraft.
- (by extension)
- A hollow boat-shaped structure.
- An enclosure housing machinery or a motor.
- (electrical engineering) The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.
- (nautical) The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat.
- (road transport) A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle.
Translations
[edit]compartment that holds passengers on an aerostat — see gondola
separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine, cargo, or crew
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cockpit of an aircraft — see cockpit
hollow boat-shaped structure
enclosure housing machinery or a motor
part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine
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submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat
streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle
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References
[edit]- ^ “nacelle, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2023; “nacelle, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
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nacelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - nacelle (wind turbine) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French nacele (“small boat”), from Late Latin navicella, diminutive of Latin navis (“boat”). Doublet of navicelle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nacelle f (plural nacelles)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “nacelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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