[
US
/ˈwɪŋˌspæn/
]
[ UK /wˈɪŋspæn/ ]
[ UK /wˈɪŋspæn/ ]
NOUN
- linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil
How To Use wingspan In A Sentence
- To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft wingspans was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
- That would have been a huge wingspan for a bird, much less for a bat.
- He said engineers want to build a vehicle with a 1 - inch wingspan, possibly made elastic material.
- Experts on the red kite - a spectacular bird with a wingspan of up to 6ft - say it is essentially a scavenger which feeds on carrion rather than attacking sheep or game birds.
- These tall thin birds have long necks, bills, and legs and a very wide wingspan.
- The adult of the raspberry crown borer is a clearwing moth with a wingspan of 1 1/4 inches.
- Adult hornworms are huge grayish brown moths with wingspans of up to five inches.
- Gulfstream said it would achieve the additional 500 nm to 600 nm by increasing the wingspan of the GIV-SP and incorporating the winglets that were then being designed for the GV.
- Great teratorn birds with 25-foot wingspans stalked prey.
- The presence of a bird with a wingspan of around 1.5m must have been very distressing.