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Shipbuilding and Aeronautics
noun
The resistance which arises from the impact of the forward surfaces of a moving ship, plane, etc., with the water or air through which it moves.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in John Charnock (1756–1807), naval biographer.
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