Meaning & use
fairing
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A structure added to a vehicle, such as a motorcycle, aircraft, or boat, to reduce drag and improve its streamlined shape.
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The racing motorcycle's fairing helped cut through the wind at high speed.
Engineers redesigned the rocket's fairing to better protect the satellite during launch.
A note on using this word
In older English, "fairing" also meant a small gift bought at a fair, a now largely obsolete sense.
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