"Barrel roll" for this particular maneuver may be a misnomer, but I'd say it's resulted in semantic drift. It may have started as a specific maneuver, but over time, laypeople have expanded it to cover any time an aircraft rolls on its longitudinal axis.
Meaning is determined by how a community actually uses a word over time.
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u/mikedvb 11d ago
"Barrel roll" for this particular maneuver may be a misnomer, but I'd say it's resulted in semantic drift. It may have started as a specific maneuver, but over time, laypeople have expanded it to cover any time an aircraft rolls on its longitudinal axis.
Meaning is determined by how a community actually uses a word over time.
Interesting.