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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 access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in.
WordNet
n. a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure [syn: air lock]
Wikipedia
An airlock is a device which permits the passage of people and objects between a pressure vessel and its surroundings while minimizing the change of pressure in the vessel and loss of air from it. The lock consists of a small chamber with two airtight doors in series which do not open simultaneously.
An airlock may be used for passage between environments of different gases rather than different pressures, to minimize or prevent the gases from mixing.
An airlock may also be used underwater to allow passage between an air environment in a pressure vessel and the water environment outside, in which case the airlock can contain air or water. This is called a floodable airlock or an underwater airlock, and is used to prevent water from entering a submersible vessel or an underwater habitat.
Airlock is a Belgium based trip hop musical group formed November 1997 in Brussels notable for their ambient music on several popular TV series: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami. The band members were Renaud Charlier, Ernst W. Meinrath and Pierre Mussche.
An airlock is a chamber with two air-pressure-tight doors for moving between areas of different air pressure.
Airlock or air lock may also refer to:
- Air lock, an obstruction of liquid flow in pipes
- Airlock (band), a musical group
- Airlock (agency), an advertising company
- Fermentation lock, a device restricting air flow during fermentation
- "Air Lock", episode three of the 1965 Doctor Who serial Galaxy 4
- In sexual slang, the term refers to triple penetration.
- In the HUB Airtrim scuba diving stab jacket, "Airlock" refers to an inflatable device used to secure the air cylinder.
Airlock is a London based digital agency specialising in multi-platform which was founded in early 2001 and is most notable for its work with Diesel (clothing company), the BBC, Channel 4, Motorola and Heineken.
The founders of the company are Charlie Martin, Joseph Denne and Will Lebens. Chris Mair joined the board of directors from Diesel (clothing company) in early 2006.
Airlock was acquired by Publicis in early 2011 and is now part of Leo Burnett Worldwide.
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 inventor Brian Germain following a near-fatal ram-air wing collapse in 1994. Germain made a full recovery to personally test many of the airlock prototype parachutes, often in extreme conditions. Specific parachute designs utilizing the Airlock technology include the following: Jedei, Sweptwing, Genesis, Warlock, (AirTimeDesigns.com) Vengeance, (PerformanceDesigns.com) Samurai, Lotus, Sensei R1 (BigAirSportz.com).
While the airlock approach to canopy design has generated an enthusiastic user base, the design also has its problems. For example, a ram-air parachute designed with airlocks will not deflate quickly upon landing on a windy day. This may result in dragging a parachutist across the ground. Parachute packers have also noted that these canopies take longer to pack due to the extra time it takes to squeeze the air out. However, proponents prefer the safety advantages of a stable canopy in flight over inconveniences on the ground.
Airlock is an action game developed by Data Age in which you have to go out of a submarine. It received mediocre reviews from critics.
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.