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AIR GAP

Specialty Definition: AIR GAP

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

A gap in the magnetic parts of a magnetic circuit. It is crossed by the flux lines and is short relative to the magnetic path length. Source: European Union. (references)

Environment

Open vertical gap or empty space that separates drinking water supply to be protected from another water system in a treatment plant or other location. The open gap protects the drinking water from contamination by backflow or back siphonage. (references)

Geography

Former water gap, now abandoned, e. g. by piracy, by the stream that formed it. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: AIR GAP

Specialty definitions using "AIR GAP": gap sensitivitsalient poletape head. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AIR GAP

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dishwasher air gap

27

air gap

18

air gap faucet

7

air gap performer

2

air gap rpm

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: AIR GAP

Language Translations for "AIR GAP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

просвет (clear, daylight). (various references)

   

Danish

  

stykke af minegang (dry gap, wind gap, wind valley), luftspalte (gap). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

luchtspleet (gap), droog doorbraakdal (dry gap, wind gap, wind valley). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ilmarako (gap, stoma, stomata, stomate). (various references)

   

French

  

tronçon de vallée, entrefer. (various references)

   

German

  

Luftspalt (gap). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κενό αέροσ (air pocket), κοίλωμα προσπέλασης κοιλάδας (dry gap, wind gap, wind valley), χάσμα (chasm, gap, gulf, hiatus, rift), διακενό αγωγών. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

légrés (airspace). (various references)

   

Italian

  

valle montana (dry gap, wind gap, wind valley), traferro (gap). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airay apgay

   

Portuguese

  

portela (dry gap, wind gap, wind valley), entreferro (gap), desfiladeiro (canyon, defile, dingle, gap, gorge, gullet, kloof, pass, ravine). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

воздушный зазор, зазор (backlash, clearance, clearing, gap, give, slack, yawn), просвет (clear, clearance, road clearance). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vazdušni prostor (air space). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

entrehierro (spark gap). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

luftgap (gap, head space in a bottle of wine). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

отвір (aperture, bore, boring, breach, break, canal, clearance, embrasure, gape, hole, mesh, mouth, open, opening, orifice, ostiole, perforation, port, ventage, window), зазор (air space, clearance, slack, yawn), повітряний проміжок. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: AIR GAP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-p-r"

-1 letter: agria.

-2 letters: agar, aria, grip, pair, para, prig, raga, ragi, raia.

-3 letters: aga, air, gap, gar, gip, par, pia, pig, rag, rap, ria, rig, rip.

-4 letters: aa, ag, ai, ar, pa, pi.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-p-r"
 

+1 letter: piragua.

 

+2 letters: agraphia, agraphic, agrypnia, diagraph, pagurian, paradigm, parading, parawing, piraguas, plagiary.

 

+3 letters: agraphias, agrypnias, appearing, diagraphs, diaphragm, disparage, graphical, paganizer, pagurians, paradigms, parawings, parlaying, partaking, pragmatic, ptarmigan, rampaging, sporangia.

 

+4 letters: appareling, appraising, arpeggiate, asparagine, asperating, aspergilla, aspirating, campaigner, carpogonia, diaphragms, disparaged, disparager, disparages, frangipane, frangipani, paganizers, palavering, paragoning, paralogism, paralysing, paralyzing, paraplegia, paraplegic, parmigiana, parmigiano, placarding, plagiaries, plagiarise, plagiarism, plagiarist, plagiarize, pragmatics, pragmatism, pragmatist, ptarmigans, radiograph, ramparting, readapting, sarcophagi, separating, sporangial, trapanning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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