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paraglider
- Definição1
- A parachute shaped like a glider wing that allows [its user] to take off from a mountain, or from a flat terrain using a winch, and gain altitude by finding rising air currents.
- Fonte1
- TERMIUM PLUS. The Government of Canada’s terminology and linguistic data bank. Disponível em http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/. Acesso em 12 mai. 2016.
- Definição2
- Inflatable hypersonic spacecraft having form of metallised-fabric kite of paper-dart shape.
- Fonte2
- GUNSTON, Bill. The Cambridge aerospace dictionary. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2004. vii, 740 p. (Cambridge aerospace series.)
- Subárea
- Aircraft
- Broader Term
- glider
- Français
- parapente
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