especially: a device that consists of a central hub with radiating blades placed and twisted so that each forms part of a helical surface and that is used to propel a vehicle (such as a ship or airplane)
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After developing the Whale Design propeller, BlueNav integrated the blades into its existing BlueSpin rim drives.—New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2025 Those who heard the roar of the motors and the whirl of the propellers just after 6 a.m. that day were witnesses to the first flight of, depending on your point of view, either a fanciful and quickly forgotten business venture or one of the world’s most successful marketing gambits.—April White, JSTOR Daily, 20 Jan. 2025 Unlike a traditional paraglider, where pilots must launch from a cliff or hillside and catch columns of rising warm air to ascend, the motor and propeller allow pilots to take off from open, flat ground—no hills or cliffs required.—Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2024 The Flip has a Mode button on its fuselage, on the right side between the two propellers relative to the drone's camera facing you.—PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for propeller
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