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Definition of Air pocket
1. Noun. A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly.
Definition of Air pocket
1. Noun. a local region of low atmospheric pressure, or a local downward current; especially one that causes an aircraft to lose height suddenly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Pocket
Literary usage of Air pocket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. With the Men who Do Things by Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"But that means that we have to extend the air pocket to a considerable height.
On those high shafts, the air pocket extends up one hundred and thirty-seven ..."
2. Modern Industrial Progress by Charles Henry Cochrane (1904)
"The chief protection against the danger of a long fall has been obtained by the
placing of an air-pocket at the foot of the elevator-shaft. ..."
3. Aircraft of To-day: A Popular Account of the Conquest of the Air by Charles Cyril Turner (1917)
"The old idea was that an air-pocket was a vacuum, or something very much like
it ; and here a most interesting passage in " Paradise Lost " may be recalled. ..."
4. The A-B-C of Aviation: A Complete, Practical Treatise Outlining Clearly the by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1918)
"There is no such thing as an air "pocket." The so-called air "pocket" is merely
a downward current of air which has, as above stated, a natural tendency to ..."
5. Water Hammer: With Special Reference to the Researches of Professor N. Joukovsky by Nikolaĭ Egorovich Zhukovskiĭ (1904)
"This enables us readily to locate an air pocket by means of the diagram. The width
of the depression, indicated in time units, is roughly proportional to ..."
6. Cyclopedia of Engineering; a General Reference Work on Steam Boilers and by American Technical Society, Louis Derr (1919)
"Loss of circulating water may be caused by an air pocket which may be formed ...
If this air pocket is discovered in time the difficulty may be remedied by ..."
7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1920)
"The air-pocket had entirely disappeared and the liver occupied the ... Three months
later, the air-pocket had disappeared, the diaphragm had resumed its ..."
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