nacelle
nounA separate streamlined enclosure on an aircraft or spacecraft for sheltering the crew or cargo or for housing an engine and usually its related components.
nounA similar enclosure on a wind turbine that houses the energy-generating components, including the shaft, generator, and gearing, and to which the rotor and blades of the turbine are attached.
nounA small boat.
nounThe basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.
nounA streamlined enclosure on an airplane, as for the engine or for the cargo or passengers; — formerly used to refer to the boatlike, inclosed body of an airplane which is usually now called the
A separate streamlined
The part between the
The compartment that holds passengers on a
a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine