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airlock
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A parachute airlock (simply airlock in context) is a safety mechanism built into some parachute models which resist it losing its shape while open. It uses a ram air structure to stiffen each section of the outer edge. The design was pioneered by parachute ...
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n. a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure [syn: air lock ]
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in. n. A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide ...
Usage examples of airlock.
He followed me reluctantly into the airlock, and once we had shucked off our suits, he talked about the barnacles all the way back to my quarters, insisting that they would not have vacated the station if there had been nothing wrong.
What they could afford, it turned out, was a rental train, which was a chain of transport bubbles linked by means of special flexible airlocks and towed by a tug.
He squeezed through an airlock and then, carefully snapping the hook of his safety line to a ring just beyond the cagelike entrance, slipped outside.
On the flatscreen, the ensign unclipped his energy lance and stepped over the rim of the airlock into the dark.
Mirny and Afriel took advantage of this and secured their own chambers, dug by chemically hijacked workers and defended by a hijacked airlock guardian.
First, he visited the original airlock tunnel, where the Investors had first left him.
The toll collector peered at the holoslate, then craned his neck in the direction of the knot of men and animals logjammed outside the airlock.
No one else was in sight, but as we proceded toward the airlock, the outlines of the hatch barely perceptible beneath the atsronomical display, three men in black gear stepped out from a doorway farther along the passage.
Then, when the atmosphere had been reintroduced into the compartment, he opened his airlock doors.
Judy say through his helmet speakers, as the airlock resealed behind them.
There was a small airlock and beyond that the control cabin, roomier than the boys expected it to be.
The Chedal came toward Ty, and for a moment they were closer than they had been even in the spaceliner airlock.
The boys, dressed in their spacesuits, were waiting at the airlock when the Guardsman arrived.
He could even order people pushed out of the airlock without spacesuits as long as they were guilty of armed mutiny.
This was demonstrated in the airlock system, the stairways at the Hub, the artificial suns.