Definition of "gliders" []

• Plural form of glider. (noun)

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• "The rest of the day I spent on the hammock in the sun gently crisping and watching the gliders from the RAF Fairford airshow race eachother lazily over our garden."
• "A new deal with Lotus, which supplies Palo Alto-based Tesla with "gliders" - partly assembled Roadsters missing the powertrain - ends in December 2011 and will give it enough to make 2,400 cars."
• "This studentship will investigate the spatial and temporal distribution of these regions of low oxygen using a variety of approaches, including deployment for the first time in UK coastal waters of "gliders" - self contained underwater vehicles that can continuously measure oxygen, salinity and temperature throughout the water column in selected regions for periods of many weeks."