Tip clearance is the distance between the tip of a rotating airfoil and a non-moving part.
- Gas turbine: Rotor blade and casing
- Propeller (ship or aircraft): Propeller and structure
- Ground tip clearance
- Wind turbine: blade and tower
Famous quotes containing the word tip:
“Panache upon panache, his tails deploy
Upward and outward, in green-vented forms,
His tip a drop of water full of storms.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)