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Aeroplane vs Superplane - What's the difference?

aeroplane | superplane |

As nouns the difference between aeroplane and superplane

is that aeroplane is while superplane is (informal) a very large or technologically sophisticated aeroplane.

aeroplane

English

Alternative forms

* * (qualifier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, British) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
  • (Canada, US, obsolete, aviation) an airplane

    • Derived terms

    * aeroplaning * plane * hydroaeroplane (obsolete)

    Related terms

    * aero- * plane

    See also

    * aircraft * glider * helicopter * airplane

    superplane

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A very large or technologically sophisticated aeroplane.
  • * 1954 , The Popular Science Monthly (volume 165)
    • The exteriors of these superplanes will be made of glass. The plane will have a glass fuselage, glass wings, glass ailerons and glass stabilizers.
  • (mathematics) hyperplane
  • * 1998 , Mathematical Association of America, Mathematical Reviews?
    • In this paper the authors reconsider the Dirac brackets for fermionic coordinates in the context of quantum deformations of the superplane .