overflight

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overflight

noun overflights

The flight of an aircraft over a particular place, especially a flight over foreign or enemy territory. Nicaragua has been investigating the possibility that the 1985 outbreak of dengue fever along its Honduran border may have resulted from the release of infected mosquitos by U.S. reconnaissance overflights.

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noun flight over a place

Español	sobrevuelo
Italiano	sorvolo

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@misc{overflight_2026,
  title = {overflight},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/overflight},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}