English
Etymology
From French aéronautique or New Latin aeronauticus. Equivalent to aero- + -naut + -ics.
Pronunciation
Noun
aeronautics (uncountable)
- The design, construction, mathematics and mechanics of aircraft and other flying objects
- The theory and practice of aircraft navigation
Hypernyms
Translations
mechanics and science of aircraft
- Arabic: عِلْم اَلطَّيَرَان m (ʕilm aṭ-ṭayarān)
- Asturian: aeronáutica (ast) f
- Bulgarian: въздухопла́ване (bg) n (vǎzduhoplávane), аерона́втика f (aeronávtika)
- Catalan: aeronàutica (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 航空學 / 航空学 (zh) (hángkōngxué), 航空術 / 航空术 (zh) (hángkōngshù)
- Esperanto: aeronaŭtiko
- French: aéronautique (fr) f
- Galician: aeronáutica f
- German: Luftfahrt (de) f
- Greek: αεροναυτική (el) f (aeronaftikí)
- Hindi: विमानन m (vimānan)
- Hungarian: aeronautika (hu), repüléstan (hu)
- Ido: aeronautiko (io)
- Italian: aeronautica (it) f
- Japanese: 航空学 (こうくうがく, kōkūgaku)
- Malay: aeronautik (ms), kaji terbang
- Occitan: aeronautica (oc) f
- Persian: هوانوردی (fa) (havânavardi)
- Polish: aeronautyka (pl) f (dated), lotnictwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: aeronáutica (pt) f
- Romanian: aeronautică (ro) f
- Russian: воздухопла́вание (ru) n (vozduxoplávanije), аэрона́втика (ru) f (aeronávtika), лётное де́ло n (ljótnoje délo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ваздухопловство n, зракопловство n аеронаутика f
- Roman: vazduhoplovstvo n, zrakoplovstvo (sh) n, aeronautika (sh) f
- Spanish: aeronáutica (es) f
- Swedish: aeronautik (sv)
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theory and practice of aircraft navigation
See also