vane
Noun
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is a type of: mechanical device - mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principlessubtypes:
- weathercock - weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster
- wind tee - weather vane shaped like a T and located at an airfield
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is a type of: fin - a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish
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is a type of: rotating mechanism - a mechanism that rotatessubtypes:
- fan blade - blade of a rotating fan
- impeller - the blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine)
- paddle - a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
- rudder blade - the vertical blade on a rudder
is a part of:- chopper, eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird - an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
- oar - an implement used to propel or steer a boat
- propeller, propellor - a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water
- turbine - rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate
- aerogenerator, wind generator, windmill - generator that extracts usable energy from winds
same as: blade -
is a type of: blade - a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)has: barb - one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a featheris a part of: feather, plumage, plume - the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birdssame as: web
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