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shock stall

/ˈʃɒk ˌstɔːl/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A stall caused when the airflow over an aircraft's wings is disturbed by shock waves that occurs at a specific Mach number when the aircraft is accelerating to transonic speeds.
  2. Of an aircraft or a component of it: to undergo a shock stall.

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