1) Airborne boat 2) Device 3) English invention 4) Fast transport 5) Foil 6) Swift watercraft
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A boat with wing-like foils mounted on struts below the hull, lifting the hull entirely out of the water at speed and allowing water resistance to be greatly reduced.
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A boat with wing-like foils mounted on struts below the hull, lifting the hull entirely out of the water at speed and allowing water resistance to be greatly reduced.
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A hydrofoil is a lifting surface, or foil, which operates in water. They are similar in appearance and purpose to airfoils used by airplanes. Boats using hydrofoil technology are also simply termed hydrofoils. As speed is gained, hydrofoils lift the boat`s hull out of the water, decreasing drag and thus allowing for greater speeds. The hydrofoil ....
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A craft that under acceleration rises above water but remains in contact with the surface through supporting legs.
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underwater fin with a flat or curved winglike surface that is designed to lift a moving boat or ship by means of the reaction upon its surface from ... [1 related articles]
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Ski-like protrusion that holds the front of a vessel out of the water when at speed.
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Ski like protrusion that holds the front of a vesel out of the water when at speed. Aids economy, reduces drag.
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A craft more or less similar to the Hovercraft insofar as it flies over water and thus eliminates friction between the water and the hull. Under acceleration it rises above water but remains in contact with the surface through supporting legs.
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A hydrofoil is a wing-like structure designed to lift the hull of a moving vessel out of the water, so that it can travel faster. The term is also given to a boat equipped with such wing-like devices, such as several fast passenger ferries operating between the British mainland and the Isle of Wight and France.
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A boat with wing-like foils mounted on struts below the hull.
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n] - a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through 2. [n] - a speedboat that is equipped with hydrofoils that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds
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hydrofoil, hydroplane 1. A winglike structure attached to the hull of a boat that raises all or part of the hull out of the water when the boat is moving forward, thus reducing drag. 2. A device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through: 'The fins of a fish act as hydrofoi...
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A surface immersed in water underneath the planing bottom of a hull or float to assist take-off with its hydrodynamic lift.
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noun a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds; `the museum houses a replica of the jet hydroplane that broke the record`
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Wing that develops lift in the water in much the same way that an aeroplane wing develops lift in the air. A hydrofoil boat is one whose hull rises out of the water owing to the lift, and the boat skims along on the hydrofoils. The first hydrofoil was fitted to a boat in 1906. The first commercial hy...
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a surface form creating a thrust against water in a direction perpendicular to the plane approximated by the surface. · · a winglike member having this form, designed to lift the hull of a moving vessel. · a vessel equipped with hydrofoils.
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a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds
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