Sweepback


noun, Aeronautics.
1.
the shape of, or the angle formed by, an airplane wing or other airfoil the leading or trailing edge of which slopes backward from the fuselage.
noun
1.
the rearward inclination of a component or surface, such as an aircraft wing, fin, etc

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