WordNet
n. a mechanical system in a building that provides fresh air; "she was continually adjusting the ventilation" [syn: ventilation, ventilating system]
Usage examples of "ventilation system".
We figured she'd go on the next shuttle, but instead they sent up another monkey, new fasteners for all the ventilation system, safety screens for the air handlers, and a plea to try and make this monkey last.
If I'd been in their place I would have at least attempted to blow some kind of anaesthetizing gas into the room through the ventilation system.
This is one of a series of videotapes that are shot in an empty basketball gym with a polished maple floor and a howling, remorseless ventilation system.
She'd also managed to compare the master schematic for the station to the surveillance coverage, and she'd discovered that the central ventilation system wasn't monitored at all.
We ran around the perimeter of the room, looking for a place to hide, not sure what we hoped to find, finding nothing until I spotted one of the ventilation system's large intake grilles set in the wall at floor level.
At the far end of the room one of the long library ladders was propped up to a grating of the ventilation system.
He also saw that the ventilation system was designed so as to preclude any movement of air from one ward to the other.
Facetiously he wondered if a bunch of infected rats could be living in the ventilation system on the seventh floor.
He always entered via the ventilation system rather than the main lobby because the main lobby was patrolled by robots whose job it was to quiz incoming employees about their expense accounts.
The ventilation system was unable to wash the air fast enough and now the gas had spread slowly down the drive.
The relief she felt when the house's ventilation system obediently reversed the flow of air through the greenhouse nearly buckled her knees.
As more scattered telltales began to flash amber, Trystin shut down the ventilation system and, as soon as the tubes reloaded, loosed two more torps.
He knew at once that she had grabbed the masks to get them to him and the others in the ventilation system, but had already breathed too much gas.