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(Latin: to fly; flying; flies; fleeting; rapid, fast, quickly)
(Greek: bat, bats; flying mammals with wings: cheir, "hand" + pteron, "wing")
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A neurosis that occurs in pilots: Jet lag is one kind of flying fatigue that a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft have experienced.
plane flying aloft in the air above *
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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flying saucer
A flying object whose nature is unknown; especially, anything considered to have extraterrestrial origins.
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Astronomy and related astronomical terms
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robot bomb, flying bomb, buzz bomb
1. An small explosive jet-propelled winged-robot plane, or guided missile that carries a bomb.
2. A small winged missile that is loaded with explosives, jet-propelled, and guided only by a gyroscopic robot device.
2. A small winged missile that is loaded with explosives, jet-propelled, and guided only by a gyroscopic robot device.
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Robots, Robotic Topics, and Robot References +
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UFO, unidentified flying object
Any light or object seen in the sky whose immediate identity is not apparent.
Despite unsubstantiated claims, there is no evidence that UFO's are alien spacecraft. When investigated, the vast majority of sightings turn out to have been of natural or identifiable objects, notably bright stars and planets, meteors, aircraft, and satellites, or to have been perpetrated by pranksters.
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Astronomy and related astronomical terms
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