Noun: aviation
| Singular | aviation |
| Plural | aviations |
Sample Sentences
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The history of aviation is full of daring pioneers.
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He works in the aviation industry as a pilot.
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Military aviation played a crucial role in the war.
Nouns inflected like aviation
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French aviation, derived from Latin avis (“bird”). By surface analysis, avi- + -ation. See: French Nouns '
aviation', Latin Nouns '
avis'.