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unmanned

UK/ʌnˈmænd/US/ʌnˈmænd/
adjectiveC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,242 of 15,258leans written

Unmanned means operating with nobody on board. An unmanned aircraft, an unmanned mission, the desk was unmanned.

Uncrewed is now the preferred term in aviation and space, since unmanned says more than it means. Of a desk or a post it simply means nobody was there.

Definitions of unmanned

  1. 1adjectiveunmannedOperating with nobody on board.C1

    “An unmanned spacecraft landed on Mars and sent back photographs.”

unmanned is a quality.

Where it comes from

From un- + manned.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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unmanned in the wild

  • The IAI RQ-5 Hunter is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) originally intended to serve as the United States Army's Short Range UAV system for division and corps commanders.

    IAI RQ-5 Hunter

  • The UGV is the land-based counterpart to unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned underwater vehicles and unmanned surface vehicles.

    Unmanned ground vehicle

  • The BQM-90 was an unmanned aircraft proposed for use as a target drone by the United States Armed Forces.

    BQM-90

  • The following is a list of unmanned aerial vehicles developed and operated in various countries around the world.

    List of unmanned aerial vehicles

  • A medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle flies at an altitude window of 10,000 to 30,000 feet for extended durations of time, typically 24 to 48 hours.

    Medium-altitude long-endurance UAV

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.