aviation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the activity, science, or practice of designing and operating aircraft

   She studied aviation before training as a commercial pilot.

2. 2
   noun

   the industry or system of travel and transport by aircraft

   New safety rules affected both military and civil aviation.

Common collocations

• aviation medicine Noun + noun

Borrowed from French aviation, coined in the nineteenth century from Latin avis ('bird') with the action suffix -ation. It first named human flight and soon expanded to the technology and industry of aircraft.

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