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The point in the standard atmosphere where the temperature stops dropping and becomes constant. This is the tropopause, or the dividing line between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
Industry:Aviation
The point on the chord line of an airfoil where all aerodynamic forces are concentrated.
Industry:Aviation
The portion of a gas turbine engine ahead of the combustion section. The cold section includes the inlet, compressor, and diffuser.
Industry:Aviation
The portion of a gas turbine engine that operates at a high temperature. The hot section includes the combustion, turbine, and exhaust sections.
Industry:Aviation
The portion of an automobile speedometer that indicates the distance traveled.
Industry:Aviation
The portion of the exhaust system of a gas turbine engine through which the gases leave. The tail pipe is often called the exhaust duct, or exhaust pipe.
Industry:Aviation
The portion of the operating cycle of a fourstroke-cycle reciprocating engine during which both the intake and exhaust valves are off of their seats at the same time.
Industry:Aviation
The portions of aft-fan blades that are in the exhaust of the core engine. Bluckets drive the fan from energy received from hot gases leaving the core engine.
Industry:Aviation
