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Definition: Airlock |
AirlockNoun1. A chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Physics | An intermediate volume between vacuum and a pressurized volume which can be(de)pressurized on command. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An Airlock can also be used in brewing and is a simple 'S' shaped piece of plastic tubing that is half filled with water. When fitted into the top of a carboy by a rubber stopper the airlock allows waste carbon dioxide to escape while preventing outside air from bringing in bacteria that may spoil the batch. The positive pressure of the CO2 inside of the carboy pushes out individual bubbles of carbon dioxide through the water and out to the air.
The same principle, used with water, is found in the lockss used on canals.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Airlock."
Synonym: AirlockSynonym: air lock (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Airlock |
| Specialty definitions using "airlock": conveyor airlock ♦ surface air leakage. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Allow me to introduce you to the airlock chamber (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood) You know, it's at times like this, when I'm stuck in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Airlock Testing. Credit: NASA. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | "It's at times like this, when I'm stuck in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelegeuse about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was little." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen!" |
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| "Airlock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Airlock" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 68 | 40,606 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
airlock | 40 |
rotary airlock | 15 |
marchon airlock | 10 |
airlock valve | 8 |
airlock rotary valve | 3 |
airlock feeder rotary | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "airlock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | luftsluse (pressure lock). (various references) | |
Dutch | luchtsluis. (various references) | |
French | sas air, sas. (various references) | |
German | Luftschleuse (air lock). (various references) | |
Greek | θύλακας αέρα (pressure lock). (various references) | |
Hungarian | légzsilip, légzsák (air pocket, air sac, bump, hole in the air, windbag), légkamra (air chamber, air lock, air sac, buoyancy chamber). (various references) | |
Manx | bac aer. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airlockay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | acumulação de ar (pressure lock), bolsa de ar (air bag, pressure lock). (various references) | |
Russian | воздушная пробка (air lock, air-lock). (various references) | |
Spanish | tapón de aire (pressure lock), burbuja de presión (pressure lock). (various references) | |
Swedish | luftsluss, luftblåsa (blow hole). (various references) | |
Turkish | hava kilidi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "airlock": hairlock. (additional references) | |
Words containing "airlock": hairlocks. (additional references) | |
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"Airlock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arlick, Gilcock, girnock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-k-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: caroli, lorica. | |
-2 letters: carol, claro, cloak, coral, coria, croak, korai. | |
-3 letters: arco, aril, calk, calo, cark, carl, ciao, coal, coil, coir, cola, cork, ilka, kail, kilo, kola, lack, laic, lair, lari, lark, liar, lick, lira, loca, loci, lock, okra, oral, orca, rack, rail, raki, rial, rick, rock, roil. | |
-4 letters: ail, air, arc, ark, car. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-k-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: croakily, hairlock. | |
+2 letters: hairlocks. | |
+3 letters: karyologic, kiloparsec, rockabilly, workaholic. | |
+4 letters: cartoonlike, factorylike, jackrolling, kilocalorie, kiloparsecs, latticework, workaholics. | |
+5 letters: karyological, kilocalories, latticeworks, postcardlike, roadblocking, rockabillies. | |
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