Stabilizer: A device on most all cruise vessels, to reduce pitch and roll when at sea the movement that can cause seasickness. Stabilizers are often pulled in at night in order to allow faster speeds when traveling between ports of call.

 

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Stabilizer: A device on most all cruise vessels, to reduce pitch and roll when at sea the movement that can cause seasickness. Stabilizers are often pulled in at night in order to allow faster speeds wh . . . View Full Definition

Adjustable Stabilizer: a kind of horizontal stabilizer that can be adjusted in flight to trim the airplane, thereby allowing the airplane to fly hands-off at any given airspeed.

IS (Image Stabilizer): Feature that minimizes the effects of camera shake. Originally designed for video cameras. Canon has transferee the technology to its ef lenses.

Voltage Stabilizer: Is a transformer used to produce a steady output voltage despite fluctuations of input voltage.

Fin: The fixed part of a vertical airfoil that controls the yaw of an aircraft: the movable part being the RUDDER. Sometime referred to as Vertical Stabilizer.

Stabilator: A movable horizontal tail that combines the actions of a stabilizer and elevator, increasing longitudinal stability while creating a pitching moment.

EIS: Electronic image stabilizer. A feature that minimizes effect of camera shake.

Empennage: An aircraft's tail group, includes rudder and fin, and stabilizer and elevator. Old French: empenner, to feather an arrow, from Latin penna, feather.

Canard: An arrangement in which the horizontal stabilizer and elevators of an aircraft are mounted in front of the main wing(s).

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