Nacelle

Word NACELLE
Character 7
Hyphenation na celle
Pronunciations /nəˈsɛl/

Definitions and meanings of "Nacelle"

What do we mean by nacelle?

A separate streamlined enclosure on an aircraft or spacecraft for sheltering the crew or cargo or for housing an engine and usually its related components. noun

A similar enclosure on a wind turbine that houses the energy-generating components, including the shaft, generator, and gearing, and to which the rotor and blades of the turbine are attached. noun

A small boat. noun

The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc. noun

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. noun

A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine, cargo, or crew. noun

The part between the tower and rotor of a wind turbine. noun

The compartment that holds passengers on a hot-air balloon, a dirigible, or an aerostat; a gondola. noun

A streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine noun

A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine, cargo, or crew.

The part between the tower and rotor of a wind turbine.

The compartment that holds passengers on a hot-air balloon, a dirigible, or an aerostat; a gondola.

The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH hulled boat.

A small boat.

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The word "nacelle" in example sentences

The turbine's generator housing, called a nacelle, is pulled up the mountain. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At 62 tons, the nacelle is the "brains" of the turbine's operation and includes its gear box. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A nacelle is a streamlined enclosure that houses crew or cargo, or houses engines. ❋ David Pearson (2010)

A nacelle is the streamlined cover that houses an aircraft engine, and the one at the Goodrich exhibit will protrude from the pavilion in such a way that it may even provide shelter from any passing showers to visitors who stand outside underneath it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A nacelle is the 72-ton housing unit at the top of a wind turbine tower that holds equipment needed to convert wind energy to electricity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The nacelle, which is located at the top of the wind turbine tower and functions to convert wind energy to electric power, consists of the wind turbine rotor axis, generator, multiplying gearbox, control system and electrical equipment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Local unit General Elektrik Ticaret & Servis AS may start manufacturing turbines and so-called nacelle casings, with half the output likely to be sold within Turkey as the government targets a 20-fold increase in wind capacity by 2020, said ❋ Unknown (2010)

The nacelle is the unit that houses the gearbox, drive train and control equipment on wind turbines. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The 50 horse-power Antoinette engine, which was enclosed in the body (or 'nacelle') in the front of which the pilot sat, drove a propeller behind, revolving between the outriggers carrying the tail. ❋ Evelyn Charles Vivian (1914)

One exploded against the rear quarter of the port shielding, and the port nacelle flickered. ❋ David A. McIntee (2011)

“Nacelle shielding increased by—” the amount was drowned out by alarms and yells, and a tremendous crashing that filled the bridge as one nacelle slammed down onto one antibody, and the other nacelle smashed upward into the second antibody. ❋ David A. McIntee (2011)

Just look at what passes for her nacelle radiators. . . ❋ David A. McIntee (2011)

“But one of the Borg fragments penetrated the starboard nacelle.” ❋ David R. George III (2011)

Sisko watched in horror as the nacelle went spinning off in one direction while Assurance tumbled away in another. ❋ David R. George III (2011)

It's been a scarce collector's item until a couple of months ago, when AMT Ertl reissued it, albeit still in its photoactive molding and lacking the internal lighting fixtures or nacelle engines of the original. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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