Synonyms for flaps
flaps

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1. flap, flapsnoun

   a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag

   Synonyms:
   fuss, fluttering, pother, tizzy, dither, flutter, flap, flapping

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1. • Airfoil

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1. List of paraphrases for "flaps":

   instabilities, beats, tatters, tabs, shreds, vanes, fins

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How to use flaps in a sentence?

1. Lisa Pruett:

   Flaps on the top of boxes are getting shorter, or the box itself is thinner, two years ago these changes may have been minor. Now they are increasingly impactful to companies.

2. Greg Edgecombe:

   We didn’t know these animals had two sets of flaps (an upper one and a lower one) because the fossils we had were all so flattened.

3. Kevin Chen:

   Through various theoretical, computational and experimental studies, we found that the mechanics of flapping propulsion are actually very similar in air and in water, in both cases, the wing is moving back and forth. The only difference is the speed at which the wing flaps.