Preflight
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Preflight is an adjective meaning Taking place before the start of a flight.
Meaning
Taking place before the start of a flight.
More Meanings
- (computing) Serving to confirm that requests can be accepted, before sending an actual request.
- An inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement after launching from the springboard but before pushing off the vault.
- To perform an inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.
Example Sentences
a CORS preflight request
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
- preflights
- preflighting
- preflighted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include checkout, predeparture, prelanding, prefight, prefire, pretrip.
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