Hover

Hover: hovering is stationary flight, exhibited by bees, dragonflies, hummingbird hawk-moths, hummingbirds, bats, helicopters, balloons, and kites. Hovering generally consumes large amounts of fuel when done by rockets, special airplanes or hummingbirds.

Hovering also applies to the semi-squatting position often used by women while urinating to avoid sitting on a potentially contaminated toilet seat.

Hover may also refer to:

• Levitation, the process by which an object is suspended by a physical force against gravity, in a stable position without solid physical contact

Transport

• Helicopter flight controls#Hover, nearly stationary aviation in a helicopter
• Hovercraft are crafts capable of traveling and being stationary over land, water, mud or ice
• Hovertrains use magnetic levitation and linear motors
• Jets that can hover and fly
  • Harrier jet
  • Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
• Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is turboprop aircraft that can hover, as a tiltrotor
• Great Wall Hover, a sport utility vehicle produced by Great Wall Motors
• Johan E. Høver, a Norwegian aircraft designer, most noted for the Høver M.F. 11

Computing

• Hover (domain registrar)
• Hover!, a computer game for Microsoft Windows
• Mouse hover or mouseover, a gesture made with the pointer in computer user interfaces

Other uses

• Hover Chamber Choir, established in 1992 in Armenia

See also

• Hoover (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Hover
• Windhover (disambiguation), various meanings including the Common Kestrel
• Hovercraft (disambiguation)
• Acoustic levitation
• Aerodynamic levitation
• Electrostatic levitation
• Optical levitation
• Jet pack
• VTOL vertical take-off and landing
• Tiltwing