: a warship with a flight deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed
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The chip supports the Catapult Assisted Take-Off but Arrested Recovery system used to launch aircraft from Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026 America’s longest serving aircraft carrier, too big to transit the Panama Canal, saw action for nearly half a century, from Vietnam through Operation Desert Storm and now serves as a museum in San Diego.—Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026 As a basketball fan, watching some of those college games get played on aircraft carriers and military bases, those things were cool as hell.—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2026 And everyone saw this aircraft carrier.—David Frum, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for aircraft carrier