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Aircraft vs Turboprop - What's the difference?

aircraft | turboprop |

As nouns the difference between aircraft and turboprop

is that aircraft is a vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift while turboprop is a type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.

aircraft

English

(wikipedia aircraft)

Noun

(aircraft)
  • A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift.

    • Usage notes

    * The nonstandard plural form is in use among non-native speakers of English.

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * aircraft carrier * model aircraft * rocket aircraft

    Related terms

    * spacecraft * watercraft

    See also

    * aeroplane (UK), airplane (US) English invariant nouns English words suffixed with -craft

    turboprop

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia turboprop) (en noun)
  • A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.

    • Synonyms

    * propjet

    Coordinate terms

    (type of gas-turbine aircraft engine) turbofan, turbojet, turboshaft, propfan, fanjet, HBFJ

    See also

    * gas turbine