nacelle
- n a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine
- After the aircraft is high in the air, the cylinders will be drawn back into the engine's nacelle and the cone will be opened.
- But when company engineers, in wind-tunnel tests, purposely weakened nacelle struts to about the same condition as those on the crashed Electras, the fatal chain reaction began.
- Generous amounts of drive plasma are vented from the starboard warp nacelle always good.