a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through;
"the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils"
a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds;
"the museum houses a replica of the jet hydroplane that broke the record"
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A couple of weeks later the first ice appears, the hydrofoil service is suspended and Nikolaevsk will not see another boat until early June. 幾周之後水面就會開始結冰,屆時水翼船的航班就會暫停,尼古拉耶夫斯克在翌年六月上旬前就不會再有船舶光顧了。