Usually means: Hinged flight control surface, wings.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. aileron: Merriam-Webster
  2. aileron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aileron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aileron: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aileron: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aileron, aileron: Wordnik
  7. aileron: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Aileron: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. aileron: Wiktionary
  10. aileron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. aileron: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. aileron: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. aileron: Dictionary.com
  14. aileron: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Aileron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. aileron: Rhymezone
  17. aileron: FreeDictionary.org
  18. aileron: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. aileron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. aileron: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. aileron: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aileron: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. aileron: A Word A Day
  2. aileron: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aileron: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. aileron: Chapters in the Sky
  2. A Gliding Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

(Note: See ailerons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The hinged part on the trailing edge of an airplane wing, used to control longitudinal turns.
noun:  (architecture) A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church.

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