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From air + craft.
Noun
aircraft (plural aircraft or aircrafts)
- A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift.
- Plural form of aircraft.
Usage notes
- The word aircraft is a countable noun, but with the same plural form as singular; hence "one aircraft", "two aircraft", etc.
- vehicles that fly ballistically, propelled solely by rockets, are not usually referred to as aircraft, unlike rocket planes
- An aircraft with a propulsion system is also termed airplane/aeroplane.
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