Nacelle

Definitions

1. The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola.
2. A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew.
3. The cockpit of an aircraft.
   archaic
4. A hollow boat-shaped structure.
   broadly
5. An enclosure housing machinery or a motor.
   broadly
6. The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.
   broadly
7. The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat.
   broadly
8. A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle.
   broadly

Equivalents

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