English Dictionary

heavier-than-air

形容詞

比較級限定 航空機

(of an aircraft) Weighing more than the volume of air which it displaces. / Of, pertaining to, or using an aircraft which weighs more than the volume of air it displaces.

日本語の意味

空気の浮力だけでは浮かばないほど重い、つまり排除する空気の体積以上の重量を有する航空機に関する。 / 空気よりも重い構造や性質を持つ航空機についての表現。

The Wright brothers' heavier-than-air flyer changed the course of aviation history.

ライト兄弟の（排除する空気の体積より重い）飛行機が航空史を変えた。

意味（1）

(of an aircraft) Weighing more than the volume of air which it displaces.

And folks laughed at Santos Dumont, at the Wrights, and at all the other fellows, who said they could take a heavier-than-air machine, and skim above the clouds like a bird.

意味（2）

Of, pertaining to, or using an aircraft which weighs more than the volume of air it displaces.

Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk.