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nacelle

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun nacelle has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

nacellen. [F.].
  •  A small boat.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  A streamlined enclosure on an airplane, as for the engine or for the cargo or passengers; -- formerly used to refer to the boatlike, inclosed body of an airplane which is usually now called the fuselage, and now referring mostly to the enclosure for the engine.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nacelle, n.
1 the outer casing of the engine of an aircraft.
2 the car of an airship.

Etymology
F, f. LL navicella dimin. of L navis ship
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