autogiros
Meaning of autogiros
plural 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 autogiros
- It is a name.
- The singular form of autogiros is: autogiro.
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Hyphenation of autogiros
au-to-giros
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- autogiros is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with autogiros
kairos, Biros, biros, Siqueiros, cruzeiros, fazendeiros, giros, chiros, Spiros, akepiros, hydroxyspiros, siros, Tiros, tiros, guiros, enviros, Wiros
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