mass-balancev.
/ˈmasˌbaləns/, U.S. /ˈmæsˌbæləns/ Aeronautics.
transitive. To bring about a state of mass balance in (a control surface).
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > qualities and parameters of aircraft > [verb (transitive)] > bring about mass-balanced state
mass-balance1931
1931 Flight 11 Sept. 906/1 The control surfaces have been mass-balanced in order to reduce the risk of flutter.
1975 Computer & Control Abstr. July 774/1 Unbalance is determined in a rotary body which can only be mass balanced at predetermined angular components.
Derivatives
ˈmass-ˌbalanced adj.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > qualities and parameters of aircraft > [adjective] > mass-balanced
mass-balanced1934
1934 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 38 76 Aeroplanes employing mass-balanced ailerons.
1993 Proc. Amer. Control Conf. 2 1811/2 A rationale and proposed strategy for control of forces resulting from unbalanced conditions on the NASA Centrifuge Facility Project mass balanced testbed are presented.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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