What does airport mean?

Definitions for airport
ˈɛərˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrtair·port

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. airport, airdrome, aerodrome, dromenoun

    an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo

Wiktionary

  1. airportnoun

    An airfield (a place where airplanes can take off and land), including one or more runways and one or more passenger terminals.

  2. Etymology: air + port

Wikipedia

  1. Airport

    An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off and to land or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals, to maintain and monitor aircraft. Larger airports may have airport aprons, taxiway bridges, air traffic control centres, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services. In some countries, the US in particular, airports also typically have one or more fixed-base operators, serving general aviation. Operating airports is extremely complicated, with a complex system of aircraft support services, passenger services, and aircraft control services contained within the operation. Thus airports can be major employers, as well as important hubs for tourism and other kinds of transit. Because they are sites of operation for heavy machinery, a number of regulations and safety measures have been implemented in airports, in order to reduce hazards. Additionally, airports have major local environmental impacts, as both large sources of air pollution, noise pollution and other environmental impacts, making them sites that acutely experience the environmental effects of aviation. Airports are also vulnerable infrastructure to extreme weather, climate change caused sea level rise and other disasters.

ChatGPT

  1. airport

    An airport is a large, complex facility where aircraft such as airplanes and helicopters take off and land. It includes areas for parking aircraft, terminals for passengers, runways for aircraft to take off and landing, and often times shops, restaurants, and various services for travelers. Typically, airports also include extensive infrastructure for managing air traffic and maintaining aircraft. They can serve commercial flights, private aircraft, and may also be used for military purposes.

Wikidata

  1. AirPort

    AirPort is the name given to a series of Apple products using the protocols. These products comprise a number of wireless routers and wireless cards. The AirPort Extreme name was originally intended to signify the addition of the 802.11g protocol to these products. In Japan, the line of products is marketed under the brand AirMac due to previous registration by I-O Data.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. airport

    See airfield.

Editors Contribution

  1. airport

    A specific location with buildings, aircraft control building, shops, toilets, space for vehicles, cargo and aircraft, buildings for passengers, crew and other relevant elements to function easily, effectively and efficiently.

    Airports are a joy to move through when we are going to fly with an airline.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  

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  1. airport

    The airport symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the airport symbol and its characteristic.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'airport' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3455

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'airport' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2900

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'airport' in Nouns Frequency: #1304

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of airport in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of airport in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of airport in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Erickson:

    While this was a civil test, this airport is clearly very militarily capable, and China could presumably start to use it in some capacity at any time.

  2. President Biden:

    The situation on the ground continues to be extremely dangerous, and the threat of terrorist attacks on the airport remains high, our commanders informed me that an attack is highly likely in the next 24-36 hours.

  3. Bryan Gottlieb:

    Everyone on that plane would have much preferred to be in any airport in the US, to say nothing of Newark or LaGuardia right in the same general area.

  4. Roz Rothstein:

    The man looked for a synagogue near the airport, had the rabbi contact another rabbi in New York that he felt could move the meter on the release of Aafia Siddiqui,there were antisemitic slurs during his rant as well as by Siddiqui during her trial. There must be no question that he targeted Jews.

  5. Another BBC correspondent in Pyongyang:

    When he reached the airport on Friday, he was separated from the rest of his team, prevented from boarding that flight, taken to a hotel and interrogated by the security bureau here in Pyongyang before being made to sign a statement and then released, eventually allowed to rejoin us here in this hotel.

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