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ˈɛərˌdrɒpair·drop

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. airdropnoun

    delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft

    "until then, front line troops will be supplied by airdrop"

Wiktionary

  1. airdropnoun

    The act of delivering goods or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft by parachute.

  2. airdropverb

    To delivery goods or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft by parachute.

  3. Etymology: From air + drop.

ChatGPT

  1. airdrop

    In the world of cryptocurrency, an airdrop refers to the free distribution of tokens or coins to a large number of wallet addresses. This is usually done as a marketing strategy to gain attention or reward loyal customers. In a broader tech context, AirDrop is also a feature on Apple devices that allows users to wirelessly share and receive photos, documents, websites and more with people nearby who are also using Apple devices. In a military context, an airdrop is the delivery of supplies or equipment from an aircraft via parachute.

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  1. Airdrop

    An airdrop is a type of airlift, developed during World War II to resupply otherwise inaccessible troops, who themselves may have been airborne forces. In some cases, it is used to refer to the airborne assault itself. Early airdrops were conducted by dropping or pushing padded bundles from aircraft. Later small crates with parachutes were pushed out of the aircraft's side cargo doors. Later cargo aircraft were designed with rear access ramps, lowerable in flight, that allowed large platforms to be rolled out the back. As aircraft grew larger, the U.S. Air Force and Army developed low-level extraction, allowing tanks and other large supplies to be delivered, such as the M551 Sheridan or M2 Bradley. Propaganda leaflets are also a common item to airdrop. The airdropping of weapons evolved to the concept of having the payload itself as one massive bomb. The 15,000 pound BLU-82, nicknamed the "Daisy Cutter" for its ability to turn a dense forest into a helicopter landing zone in a single blast, was used in Vietnam and recently in Afghanistan. The 22,600 pound GBU-43/B, nicknamed the "Mother Of All Bombs", was deployed to the Persian Gulf for The Iraq War. These palletized airdropped weapons are used by cargo aircraft like the C-130 or C-17 in the traditional role of a bomber aircraft.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. airdrop

    The unloading of personnel or materiel from aircraft in flight. See also air movement; free drop; free fall; high velocity drop; low velocity drop.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of airdrop in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of airdrop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of airdrop in a Sentence

  1. Kent Syverud:

    To date, law enforcement has not been able to locate a single individual who directly received an AirDrop. Not one, it was apparent that this rumor was probably a hoax, but that reality was not communicated clearly and rapidly enough to get ahead of escalating anxiety.

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  • airdropGreek
  • lanciare con il paracadute, paracadutare, lancio con il paracaduteItalian
  • ירידת אווירHebrew
  • выброска десантаRussian

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