canard

canard

canard (plural canards)

1. A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
   • 2005, The New Yorker, 29 August, page 78.

     It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards.

2. (aeronautics) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
3. (transport, engineering) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.

canard

Altri significati:

false (wild, groundless) rumor (rumour)

A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.

false or misleading report or story

(aeronautics) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.

(transport, engineering) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.

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