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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
aileron /ˈeɪlərɒn/

▶noun a hinged surface in the trailing edge of an aircraft's wing, used to control the roll of the aircraft about its longitudinal axis.

– origin early 20th cent.: from Fr., lit. ‘small wing’.

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