Definition of Air lock

1. Noun. A chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure.

Exact synonyms: Airlock
Generic synonyms: Chamber

Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Lock

air hose
air hostess
air hunger
air intake
air jacket
air jackets
air kerma rate
air kiss
air lane
air lanes
air letter
air letters
air level
air levels
air lift fermenter
air lock (current term)
air mail
air marshal
air mattress
air microbiology
air mile
air navigation
air out
air parcel
air parcels
air photo
air piracy

Literary usage of Air lock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"air lock. A chamber of access to a pneumatic caisson, tunnel heading, or other enclosure containing compressed air, serving a purpose like that of a lock on ..."

2. Modern Tunnel Practice: Illustrated by Examples Taken from Actual Recent by David McNeely Stauffer (1906)
"Briefly expressed, an air-lock is a means devised by engineers for passing from the outer air to a working chamber filled with air compressed to a degree ..."

3. Shield and Compressed Air Tunneling by Bertram Henry Majendie Hewett, Sigvald Johannesson (1922)
"An air lock. The angles riveted on the outside are to anchor the lock in the masonry bulkhead. (Ravenswood Tunnel, A-8.) air side is readily opened for ..."

4. Practical Tunnelling by Frederick Walter Simms, Daniel Kinnear Clark (1896)
"Meanwhile progress had been made with the horizontal air lock in the shaft, as it was found very inconvenient to have the lifting of the material checked in ..."

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