nacelle

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff; gondola (of a hot-air balloon, etc.); structure on an aircraft to house an engine”), Middle French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff”), from Old French nacele, from Late Latin naucella, nāvicella (“small boat or ship”), from Latin nāvis (“a ship”) (from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“a boat”)) + -ella (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /nəˈsɛl/ Rhymes: -ɛl Hyphenation: na‧celle === Noun === nacelle (plural nacelles) (aviation) The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola. A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew. (archaic) The cockpit of an aircraft. (by extension) A hollow boat-shaped structure. An enclosure housing machinery or a motor. (electrical engineering) The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine. (nautical) The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat. (road transport) A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle. ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === Nacelle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French nacele (“small boat”), from Late Latin navicella, diminutive of Latin navis (“boat”). Doublet of navicelle. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /na.sɛl/ === Noun === nacelle f (plural nacelles) (literary) skiff, wherry (small flat-bottomed rowing boat) gondola (of hot-air balloon etc.) pod (of spacecraft) cradle, carrycot ellipsis of nacelle élévatrice (“cherry picker, aerial work platform”) ==== Derived terms ==== nacelle élévatrice ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: nacelle === Further reading === “nacelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012