A nacelle (/nəˈsɛl/ nə-SEL) is an (often streamlined) enclosure, which is part of, but mounted separately on, a larger technical object.

It may refer to:

  • Nacelle, a streamlined housing for aircraft parts such as engines, fuel or equipment
    • Podded engine, an aero engine pre-assembled into a mounting pod (or nacelle)
  • Nacelle (wind turbine), the part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine that houses all of the generating components
  • Gondola (airship), an external equipment or passenger compartment attached to a powered blimp or dirigible
  • Gondola (balloon), a payload basket or capsule suspended beneath an unpowered hot air or gas balloon

For uses such as:

  • enclosures on the body of a motor vehicle (e.g. headlamp nacelles) or
  • submersed providers of buoyancy on boats

which do not (yet) have a Wikipedia entry, please refer to nacelle in Wiktionary, the dictionary sister project of Wikipedia.

Other uses

Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacelle_(disambiguation)
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