momentum

mo’mentom 2. [plural momenta] the product of the ma and vele city of a moving body; the quantity of motion of a body: as, angular *momentum, negatry *momentum. principle of no momentum, the principle that when a body moving thru an incompre ible fluid containd in a fixt enclosure experiences-resistance to its motion, the body imparts no momentum to the fluid. monoplane ‘menoa,preen n. a singl-plane flying-machine; a flying or gliding-machine having commonly but one main sustaining-plane (at least en either side of its central body), er (of it have two or more main sustaining-planes), having the sustaining-planes which are located on either side of its centzgal body disposed in one geometzze plane; an aeroplane flyrzngemachine without superposed sustaining-planes: contrasted with biplasfe, triplane, multiplane, etc. double monoplane, a me no plane having two sustaining: planes, placed one after the other; a tandem me no plane having two sustaining-surfaces. tandem monoplane, a me no plane which has separate sustaining-planes placed tandem, or one after the other, as in a double me no plane. see tandem. monoplane ‘mona,peen adj. resembling or having the characteristics or nature of a me no plane; singl-plane; one plane; flat: as, a *me no plane tail. monoplane-flight ‘mono-peen,fra it n. a flight made by or in a me no plane. mono plan ist ‘mono,pee-nist 7. one who uses me no planes; an aviator who drives me no planes. monsoon,men’soun 7. a seasonal wind prevailing in southern Asia and the Indian Ocean, which from April to October blows from the southwest and from October to April from the nertheast. dry monsoon, same meaning as winter monsoon. rainy monsoon, the southwest monsoon, occurring in summer and commonly accompanied by hevy and continuous rainfall; the wet monsoon; the summer monsoon. summer monsoon, same meaning as rainy monsoon. wet monsoon, same meaning as rainy monsoon. winter monsoon, the nertheast monsoon, occurring in winter; the dry monsoon.. montgolfier,mont’gelfi-oz in. [also spelt montgolfiere, montgolfiére] a balloon of the kind invented by the brothers J. M. and J. E. Ment gel fier of Annonay (Ardéche), France, rn 1783, raised by heated air; a hetzair balloon; a fire-balloon; a Ment gel fier balloon. moonlight ‘moun;tart n. the light of the moon; moonshine. mooring ’mo:-zin ». something by which an airshrp or balloon is made fast to earth, or the ebject to which it is moored or made fast. moth me:6 x. any leprdepterous insect of the suberder heterecera, which resemble the butterflies (rhopalecera) but are 158 DICTIONARY OF AVIATION ~