ground-effect vehicle

English · Thesaurus

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

ground-effect vehicle

noun ground-effect vehicles

  1. An aircraft that uses aerodynamic ground effect to attain level flight near the surface of water.
  2. Synonym of ground-effect machine.

    Similar: ground-effect machine, GEM, GEV, ekranoplan, flarecraft, sea skimmer, wing-in-ground-effect vehicle, wing-in-surface-effect ship

Translations

Every language

noun ekranoplan

中文地效飛行器 /地效飞行器
DeutschBodeneffektfahrzeug
Русскийэкранопла́н ekranoplán

Talk about this word

Cite this
MLA

"ground-effect vehicle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ground-effect%20vehicle. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

ground-effect vehicle. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ground-effect%20vehicle

Chicago

"ground-effect vehicle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ground-effect%20vehicle.

BibTeX
@misc{ground_effect_vehicle_2026,
  title = {ground-effect vehicle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ground-effect%20vehicle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}