aerial

adjetivo

1. 1

   Living or taking place in the air.

   The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.

2. 2

   arcaicoMade up of air or gas; gaseous.

   A soul [...] was first conceived to be an aerial, or an igneous substance, which animates the body during life, and makes its escape at death [...].

3. 3

   Positioned high up; elevated.

   The aerial photographs clearly showed the damage caused by the storm.

4. 4

   Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.

   the great Recompence in view, for which the most exalted Minds have with so much Alacrity, sacrifis'd their Quiet, Health, sensual Pleasures, and every inch of themselves, has never been any thing else but the Breath of Man, the Aerial Coyn of Praise.

5. 5

   Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric.

6. 6

   Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft.

   aerial photography

   an aerial view of the landscape

   In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

7. 7

   Above the ground.

substantivo

1. 1

   A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.

2. 2

   A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.

   In their dancing, clubbers were flamboyant. They experimented with new dance steps and improvisations, including risky maneuvers and aerials in which women were flipped into the air.

3. 3

   A move that involves performing a full rotation while in the air, without touching any equipment such as a balance beam or panel mat with one's hands.

4. 4

   An aerial photograph.

   Hemment is on record as being the first person to film aerials of wildlife – he filmed a flock of wild ducks early in 1911, possibly on Rainey's Louisiana property.

5. 5

   A highly-contrasting visual artifact in the form of a band or ring.

   Lanczos3 for sharp results. May produce aerials. — Krita 5.2.2

Formas

plural

aerials

comparativo

more aerial

superlativo

most aerial