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Meaning of "pursuit plane" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PURSUIT PLANE

pursuit plane  [pəˈsjuːt pleɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PURSUIT PLANE

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Pursuit plane is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PURSUIT PLANE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pursuit plane

Fighter aircraft

A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat against other aircraft, as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, whose main mission is to attack ground targets. The hallmarks of a fighter are its speed, maneuverability, and small size relative to other combat aircraft. Many fighters have secondary ground-attack capabilities, and some are designed as dual-purpose fighter-bombers; often aircraft that do not fulfill the standard definition are called fighters. This may be for political or national security reasons, for advertising purposes, or other reasons. A fighter's main purpose is to establish air superiority over a battlefield. Since World War I, achieving and maintaining air superiority has been considered essential for victory in conventional warfare. The success or failure of a belligerent's efforts to gain air supremacy hinges on several factors including the skill of its pilots, the tactical soundness of its doctrine for deploying its fighters, and the numbers and performance of those fighters.

Definition of pursuit plane in the English dictionary

The definition of pursuit plane in the dictionary is a fighter plane, especially one before the second world war, that travels at high speeds and pursues enemy aircraft.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PURSUIT PLANE


aeroplane
ˈɛərəˌpleɪn
airplane
ˈɛəˌpleɪn
aquaplane
ˈækwəˌpleɪn
biplane
ˈbaɪˌpleɪn
Champlain
ʃæmˈpleɪn
complain
kəmˈpleɪn
explain
ɪkˈspleɪn
gyroplane
ˈdʒaɪrəˌpleɪn
hydroplane
ˈhaɪdrəʊˌpleɪn
hyperplane
ˈhaɪpəˌpleɪn
lain
leɪn
Laine
leɪn
lane
leɪn
monoplane
ˈmɒnəʊˌpleɪn
plain
pleɪn
plane
pleɪn
sailplane
ˈseɪlˌpleɪn
seaplane
ˈsiːˌpleɪn
triplane
ˈtraɪˌpleɪn
warplane
ˈwɔːˌpleɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PURSUIT PLANE

purse-proud
purseful
purselike
purser
pursership
pursily
pursiness
purslane
pursuable
pursual
pursuance
pursuant
pursuantly
pursue
pursuer
pursuing
pursuingly
pursuit
pursuivant
pursy

WORDS THAT END LIKE PURSUIT PLANE

astral plane
block plane
cargo plane
charter plane
deplane
fault plane
fighter plane
float plane
focal plane
galactic plane
inclined plane
jack plane
jet plane
London plane
memory lane
model plane
multiplane
rocket plane
space plane
spy plane
tailplane

Synonyms and antonyms of pursuit plane in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pursuit plane» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PURSUIT PLANE

Find out the translation of pursuit plane to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pursuit plane from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pursuit plane» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

追求平面
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

avión de caza
570 millions of speakers

English

pursuit plane
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पीछा विमान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

طائرة السعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

погоня самолет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

perseguição plano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাধনা সমতল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

poursuite plan
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pesawat mengejar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Jagdflugzeug
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

追撃機
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

추구하는 평면
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nguber pesawat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

máy bay theo đuổi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நாட்டம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उद्योगधंदे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

avcı uçağı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

piano di ricerca
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pościg samolot
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

погоня літак
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plan de urmărire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αεροπλάνο επιδίωξη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

strewe vliegtuig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

strävan plan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

jakten planet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pursuit plane

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PURSUIT PLANE»

The term «pursuit plane» is used very little and occupies the 173.686 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PURSUIT PLANE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pursuit plane» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pursuit plane» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pursuit plane

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURSUIT PLANE»

Discover the use of pursuit plane in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pursuit plane and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Flying Magazine
HIS month's model is a reduced I scale copy of the speediest, American military pursuit plane developed to date. Every part of this model is true to scale, and to keep the weights in proportion so that the front of the machine will be heavy and ...
2
The Command of the Air
type of plane; and as a consequence the pursuit plane immediately became master of the air and dominated all other types of plane in combat. Out of the necessity of protecting other types of plane from the pursuit plane, arose the need of ...
Giulio Douhet, Joseph Patrick Harahan, Richard H. Kohn, 2009
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The Patterns of War Since the Eighteenth Century
The pursuit plane was the most glamorous type of aircraft to appear in World War I and is the ancestor of the modern fighter plane. The pursuit plane evolved from the scouting and observation airplanes, types which were increasingly armed to ...
Larry H. Addington, 1994
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Flying Magazine
But unless its guns actually provide more victories than could be won by collision, it is obvious the pursuit plane's striking power has not been increased. This explains the tremendous armament increase in present pursuit types and the ...
5
Roots of Strategy: 4 military classics
For instance, let a pursuit plane be chased by a faster one, and it ceases to be a pursuit plane. By its very nature the pursuit plane must be an exceptional machine, embodying at any given moment all the most recent technical developments, ...
David Jablonsky, 1999
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Why do they fly that way?
So the pursuit plane must approach from above and behind in order to do any effective firing. For this reason the bombing formation is arranged to give the greatest possible protection to the rear. This is done by stepping the rear elements ...
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LIFE
Short of money but long on enterprise, Seversky had Kartveli convert the plane into something more practical. The conversion resulted first in an Army trainer, the BT-8, and then in a pursuit plane which the Army bought as the P-35- Kartveli's ...
8
Popular Science
... 600-horsepower motor, and with the framework of its streamlined fuselage constructed of a new lightweight type of steel, the P-6, latest Army pursuit plane, is said to be capable of a speed of 181 miles an hour. Officials say that it will enable ...
9
Speed demons of the air forces
Helping them to do so is the job of Loading .50-caliber ammunition into guns of a pursuit ship Pilot turning selector switch controlling guns to be fired • 300 YARDS DIAGRAM SHOWS HOW ALL GUNS ON PURSUIT PLANE ARE POINTED SO ...
10
Flying Magazine
ON December 30, 1930, this Dewoitine pursuit plane broke the world's speed record for planes of its class. Piloted by Marcel Doret, crack flyer of the French army, it covered the 1,000 kilometer circuit (621 miles) at an average speed of 177 ...

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PURSUIT PLANE»

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Newsweek Rewind: When Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Was Shot …
Then airline officials reported—perhaps wishfully—that the big jet, forced down by Soviet pursuit planes, had landed safely on Sakhalin Island. When the true ... «Newsweek, Jul 14»

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