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wingbeat en · NOUN

Etymology

From wing + beat.

Meanings

1. A single stroke made in flight by the wings of an animal that flies by beating its wings.
   • In addition to acoustic measurement, other methods can be used to determine wingbeat frequency. 2018, Robert Dudley, The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, Function, Evolution, Princeton University Press, page 87:
   • The birds spotted me the moment I approached. A strong southwest gale was blowing. At times, one or both of them would swing almost directly above me and without a single wingbeat remain almost motionless, in defiance of the wind, for moments at a time. 1961, Edmund C. Jaeger, Desert Wildlife, Stanford University Press, page 169:

Forms

Translations (3)

sv vingslag (single stroke of the wings in flight) · hu szárnycsapás (single stroke of the wings in flight) · de Flügelschlag (single stroke of the wings in flight)