autogyro
Meaning of autogyro
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 autogyro
- It is a name.
- The plural form of autogyro is: autogyros.
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Hyphenation of autogyro
au-t-o-gyro
- It consists of 4 syllables and 8 chars.
- autogyro is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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