wing beat
Single flight pulse
A wing beat is one complete up-and-down stroke of a bird's or insect's wing during flight.
The term often appears in discussions of flight mechanics or animal physiology, where wing beat frequency determines how fast a creature can fly: A hummingbird's wing beat can exceed fifty times per second.
Also spelled wingbeat.
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