nacelle

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A separate streamlined enclosure on an aircraft or spacecraft for sheltering the crew or cargo or for housing an engine and usually its related components.

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A 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.

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A small boat.

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The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.

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A 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 fuselage, and now referring mostly to the enclosure for the engine.

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A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine, cargo, or crew.

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The part between the tower and rotor of a wind turbine.

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The compartment that holds passengers on a hot-air balloon, a dirigible, or an aerostat; a gondola.

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a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine