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Glider - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun glider

is any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.

glider

English

(wikipedia glider)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
  • A pilot of glider aircraft.
  • Anything that glides, especially an animal or aircraft.
  • (mathematics) In the cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
  • A kind of garden swing.
  • * 2011 , Mary Biever, He Uses It For Good! (page 5)
    • Then I went into the backyard, which had a flower-covered arbor, a small garden wall, and room behind it for a garden. Swings and gliders adorned the yard.

    Hyponyms

    * hang glider, motor glider, paraglider, sailplane

    Derived terms

    * glider gun * sugar glider

    Anagrams

    * * * English agent nouns ----

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.