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Definition of Gas-tight
1. Adjective. Not allowing air or gas to pass in or out.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gas-tight
Literary usage of Gas-tight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... by means of a solid block of naphthalin introduced into a gas-tight box, and
partly volatilized by a strip of copper passing from the burner flame into ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Even a Geisler's stop-cock requires to he lubricated to be absolutely gas-tight,
and this occasionally proves a nuisance. Hence a number of attempts have ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"All of it, save whore the sculler sits, is gas-tight, so that in the event of a
race sufficient gas may bo taken into it to reduce its weight to 8 pounds. ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1869)
"All of it, save where the sculler sits, is gas-tight, so that in the event of a
race sufficient gas may bo taken into it to reduce its weight to 8 pounds. ..."
5. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"The essential parts of a typical dry meter are two main chambers, one on each
side of a central gas-tight partition; each chamber is fitted with a hollow ..."
6. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"The essential parts of a typical dry meter are two main chambers, one on each
side of a central gas-tight partition; each chamber is fitted with a hollow ..."
7. Aerial Navigation by Charles Blachford Mansfield (1877)
"... gas-tight ? A BAO made of thinnest vulcanised india-rubber sheet (' No.
50 ') of two circular pieces of flat sheet, 1 foot diameter, joined at their ..."
8. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1893)
"A great many operators employ a small leatt er washer, which is screwed ap between
the fittings, in order to secare а gas-tight joint. ..."
9. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... by means of a solid block of naphthalin introduced into a gas-tight box, and
partly volatilized by a strip of copper passing from the burner flame into ..."
10. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Even a Geisler's stop-cock requires to he lubricated to be absolutely gas-tight,
and this occasionally proves a nuisance. Hence a number of attempts have ..."
11. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"All of it, save whore the sculler sits, is gas-tight, so that in the event of a
race sufficient gas may bo taken into it to reduce its weight to 8 pounds. ..."
12. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1869)
"All of it, save where the sculler sits, is gas-tight, so that in the event of a
race sufficient gas may bo taken into it to reduce its weight to 8 pounds. ..."
13. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"The essential parts of a typical dry meter are two main chambers, one on each
side of a central gas-tight partition; each chamber is fitted with a hollow ..."
14. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"The essential parts of a typical dry meter are two main chambers, one on each
side of a central gas-tight partition; each chamber is fitted with a hollow ..."
15. Aerial Navigation by Charles Blachford Mansfield (1877)
"... gas-tight ? A BAO made of thinnest vulcanised india-rubber sheet (' No.
50 ') of two circular pieces of flat sheet, 1 foot diameter, joined at their ..."
16. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1893)
"A great many operators employ a small leatt er washer, which is screwed ap between
the fittings, in order to secare а gas-tight joint. ..."
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