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vane

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noun/veɪn//ven//veːn/
  1. 1

    A weather vane.

  2. 2

    Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.

  3. 3

    The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.

  4. 4

    A sight on a sextant or compass.

  5. 5

    One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.

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