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Aviation   /ˌeɪviˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Aviation

noun
1.
The aggregation of a country's military aircraft.  Synonym: air power.
2.
The operation of aircraft to provide transportation.
3.
The art of operating aircraft.  Synonym: airmanship.
4.
Travel via aircraft.  Synonyms: air, air travel.  "If you've time to spare go by air"



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"Aviation" Quotes from Famous Books



... place last week between M. Caillaux and M. d'Allieres the ex-Finance Minister fired in the air. As a result, we hear, aviation societies all over France are protesting against what they consider may develop ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 • Various

... visited the hangars where the British were setting up their aircraft and training the recruits for the aviation service. While approaching the grounds they were the witnesses of an accident to one of the flyers, who made a disastrous landing near them, and they were prompt enough to lift the machine from one of the ...
— The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet • Kenneth Ward

... seemed so far off that one had time for these digressions as the motor flew on over the undulating miles. But presently we came on an aviation camp spreading its sheds over a wide plateau. Here the khaki throng was thicker and the familiar military stir enlivened the landscape. A few miles farther, and we found ourselves in what was seemingly a big English town oddly grouped ...
— Fighting France - From Dunkerque to Belport • Edith Wharton

... the new one you've started—you won't get very far. This isn't as hard on you as you make it out, with all your howling for the loved ones at home. If you were the type who worried much about the loved ones at home, you'd never have taken up aviation." ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... bird trusts its instinct. It never entered the head of a swallow to criticize its own methods; and if Mozart could not write a tune wrong, that was not because he had first tested his idea at every point, but because he was Mozart. Yet no one ever thought of going to a swallow for lessons in aviation; or, rather, Daedalus did, and we all know what came ...
— Since Cezanne • Clive Bell


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