Usually means: Stabilizes, steers helicopter's yaw movement.
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  1. tail rotor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. tail rotor: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tail rotor: Vocabulary.com
  4. tail rotor: Wiktionary
  5. tail rotor: Dictionary.com
  6. Tail rotor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. tail rotor: Rhymezone
  8. tail rotor: FreeDictionary.org
  9. tail rotor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. tail rotor: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tail rotor)

noun:  (aviation) A small rotor mounted vertically at the end of the tail of a single-rotor helicopter so as to develop thrust in the same direction as the main rotor's rotation, to counter the torque effect created by the main rotor.

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