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Definition of On air
1. Adverb. Very happily. "We were floating on air at the news"
Definition of On air
1. Prepositional phrase. (&lit on air) ¹
2. Prepositional phrase. (context: broadcasting) Transmitting live. ¹
3. Prepositional phrase. Smoothly; gracefully. ¹
4. Prepositional phrase. Happily. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of On Air
Literary usage of On air
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"PLATE XL Apparatus for Experiments on Air. ... "Experiments on Air." Cavendish made
a thorough examination of a point from the first paper if a trace of ..."
2. Air Bag Safety: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science edited by Larry Pressler (1998)
"on air Bag Inflators, we noted that Ford had indicated in a request to the agency,
... on air Bag Design, NHTSA knows of many variables that may affect the ..."
3. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air and Other Branches of by Joseph Priestley (1790)
"... of the Cakes of Copper and Iron, and alfo of Mercury on Air. SEVERAL properties
of metallic calces may be ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1917)
"... American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Cleveland, O.. June 29, 1916.
Copyright 1916. By AIEE THE EFFECT OF HIGH-CONTINUOUS VOLTAGES on air, OIL, ..."
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