Usually means: Enclosure for aircraft engine components.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. nacelle: Merriam-Webster
  2. nacelle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nacelle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nacelle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nacelle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nacelle, nacelle: Wordnik
  7. nacelle: Wiktionary
  8. nacelle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. nacelle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. nacelle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Nacelle, nacelle: Dictionary.com
  12. Nacelle (wind turbine), Nacelle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. nacelle: Rhymezone
  14. nacelle (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. nacelle: FreeDictionary.org
  16. nacelle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. nacelle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. nacelle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nacelle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nacelle: Wordcraft Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nacelle)

noun:  (aviation)
noun:  The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola.
noun:  A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew.
noun:  (archaic) The cockpit of an aircraft.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  A hollow boat-shaped structure.
noun:  An enclosure housing machinery or a motor.
noun:  (electrical engineering) The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.
noun:  (nautical) The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat.
noun:  (road transport) A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle.

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