postflight

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ flight.

Adjective

postflight (not comparable)

  1. After a flight.
    • 2007 September 4, John Berg, “Time on the Greens Beats Time at the Gate”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 10 January 2021:
      The great game of golf offered an antidote to the inevitable dead space — blocks of difficult-to-use hours, pre- and postflight — that are one of business travel’s biggest drags.

Noun

postflight (plural postflights)

  1. (gymnastics) The portion of the movement after pushing off the vault but before landing on the mat.
    • 2024 July 27, Maggie Astor, “Your Guide to Olympic Gymnastics: Vault”, in The New York Times‎[2], archived from the original on 31 July 2024:
      Between the preflight and postflight is the block, a rapid motion in which the gymnast’s hands hit the vault and she pushes herself off, converting the horizontal momentum from her sprint down the runway into vertical momentum.
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