autogiro

Meaning of autogiro

noun

a form of aircraft with freely rotating horizontal blades and a propeller. It differs from a helicopter in that the blades are not powered but rotate in the slipstream, propulsion being by a conventional mounted engine.

1920s: from Spanish, from auto- ‘self’ + giro ‘gyration’.

Information about autogiro

Hyphenation of autogiro

au-to-giro

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • autogiro is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

autogiro synonyms

Meaning autogyro:

autogyro, gyroplane

Words that rhyme with autogiro

giro, Autogiro

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