dragon-fly
Dragonfly stands for:
- an order of insects, see dragonflies
- Dragonfly (mineralogy) , a liquid inclusion with a mobile gas bubble in minerals
- Operation Libelle , a Bundeswehr operation in Albania in 1997
Technology:
- Libelle (measuring technology) , a chamber with liquid and gas bubble for checking the horizontal or vertical position
- Dragonfly (cryptography) , an encryption method
- Libelle (Villing) , former German car brand
- Libelle , brand name of the former German automobile manufacturer Kleinautofabrik
- Libelle Fahrzeugbau , former Austrian automobile brand
- Libelle class , a speedboat class of the National People's Army of the GDR
- Libelle (ship, 1902) , boat of the German colonial administration of Cameroon
Aviation:
- Glass wing dragonfly , various types of gliders from Glasflügel Segelflugzeugbau
- Grade II "Libelle" , a motorized airplane built in 1909, see Grade II
- Lommatzsch Libelle , a high-performance glider from VEB Apparatebau Lommatzsch
- Dragonfly (suit) , a suit against the stress of g-force in jet pilots
- a measuring instrument for determining the position in airplanes, see turning pointer # spherical vial
Culture:
- The dragonfly (novel) , novel by John le Carré from 1983
- Die Libelle (film) , American novel adaptation from 1984
- The Dragonfly (miniseries) , 2018 television series
- Under the Sign of the Dragonfly , American film from 2002
- Libellenmatt , a mating lead in chess
- Libelle Verlag , Swiss book publisher
- a pavilion on the roof of the Leopold Museum in Vienna
See also:
Wiktionary: Dragonfly - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
