Postflight
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Postflight is an adjective meaning After a flight.
Meaning
After a flight.
More Meanings
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement after pushing off the vault but before landing on the mat.
Example Sentences
The great game of golf offered an antidote to the inevitable dead space — blocks of difficult-to-use hours, pre- and postflight — that are one of business travel’s biggest drags.
Between the preflight and postflight is the block, a rapid motion in which the gymnast’s hands hit the vault and she pushes herself off, converting the horizontal momentum from her sprint down the runway into vertical momentum.
Word Forms
- postflights
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include debriefing, postdeparture, postlaunch, postshot, postvacation, postdeployment.
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