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Definition of Gassing
1. Noun. The process of interacting with gas.
2. Noun. The deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas.
Definition of Gassing
1. n. The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.
Definition of Gassing
1. Verb. (present participle of gas) ¹
2. Noun. Poisoning by noxious gas. ¹
3. Noun. The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gassing
1. a poisoning by noxious gas [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gassing
1. Poisoning by irrespirable or otherwise noxious gases. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gassing
| gaspy gast gasted gaster gasteromycete gasteromycetes gasteropod gasteropoda gasteropodous gasteropods | gasters gastfull gastight |
Literary usage of Gassing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Aspects of Mustard Gas Poisoning by Aldred Scott Warthin, Carl Vernon Weller (1919)
"analogous to those produced by other forms of gassing. ... He could not, however,
ascribe any positive relationship of these findings to the gassing. ..."
2. The Hygiene, Diseases and Mortality of Occupations by John Thomas Arlidge (1892)
"gassing.—There is a supplementary department of textile manufacture in which the
operation known as ' gassing' is carried on. It is resorted to when a fine ..."
3. The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain Systematically Investigated by Andrew Ure (1836)
"SECTION V. The Singeing or gassing of Yarn, The fine cotton yarns which are used
... The winding process in the gassing machine will serve to illustrate the ..."
4. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"MONTE gassing. PART I. IT is probable that before the close of the actual session
the Italian Parliament will have suppressed the yet remaining convents of ..."
5. Neurosyphilis by Elmer Ernest Southard, Harry Caesar Solomon (1917)
"... was preceded by a neurasthenia and the neurasthenia was preceded by "gassing."
De Massary believes the patient and his family would perhaps be justified ..."
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