What is "pressurizing"

Usage examples of "pressurizing".

Primeval reflexes bound the adults to whatever they could grasp, folding their mantles around to reinforce their claws and pressurizing the edges until they were stiff as stone.

His jellybrain Monster memory filled in the details how the Solarians—they did not think of themselves as Monsters, any more than the Bands thought of themselves as Ringers—had suffered a population problem in the System of Sirius and had to colonize a number of planetoids, hollowing them out and pressurizing them and establishing extensive hydroponic gardens, mineral refining factories, and production facilities.

The humans were giving the apes physical examinations and wiring them from top to bottom, sticking eight-inch thermometers up their rectums, imbedding sensors in the thoracic cages, clamping the psychomotor stimulus plates on the soles of their feet, threading them into their restraint harnesses, strapping them into their procedures-trainer cubicles, closing the hatches, pressurizing the cubicles with pure oxygen, inserting the cubicles in the mock Mercury capsules, and then flashing the lights.

They even went through the process of sucking the air out of the capsule with a hose and pressurizing the interior with pure oxygen.

His jellybrain Monster memory filled in the details how the Solarians-they did not think of themselves as Monsters, any more than the Bands thought of themselves as Ringers-had suffered a population problem in the System of Sirius and had to colonize a number of planetoids, hollowing them out and pressurizing them and establishing extensive hydroponic gardens, mineral refining factories, and production facilities.