Stabilizer

[f. STABILIZE v. + -ER¹.]

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1. Aeronautics. A stabilizing apparatus or device.

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1909. C. C. Turner, Aerial Navig. of To-day (1910), 315. Stabilizer.—The tail of a flying-machine.

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1910. Times, 1 Nov., 4/5. The men removed the propellers, the ‘stabilizer,’ and various parts of the fittings.

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2. A substance added to an explosive to render it less liable to spontaneous decomposition (Webster, 1911).

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