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Definition: Compressed Air |
Compressed AirNoun1. Air at a pressure greater than that of the atmosphere; "compressed air is often used to power machines". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | Air compressed in volume and transmitted through pipes for use as motive power for underground machines. Compressed air is costly to transmit long distances, but has certain advantages, namely, it cools the air at the working face and is relatively safe in gassy mines.See also:air-conditioning process. (references) |
Space | -The air that is heated pushed through the combustor. (references) |
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Crosswords: Compressed Air |
| English words defined with "compressed air": Air engine, Air fountain, air gun, air hammer, airbrake, airbrush, airgun ♦ Compressed-air engine, cylinder ♦ Diving bell ♦ gas turbine ♦ jackhammer ♦ Pneumatic action, pneumatic drill, Pneumatic elevator, pneumatic hammer, Pneumatic lever, pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyre ♦ rock drill. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "compressed air": Compressed Air Storage. (references) |
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 | In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, A. aegypti, from southeast United States, such as spraying for mosquitos using a hand-held compressed air sprayer. Credit: CDC. |  | Dive bell equipped with compressed air allows divers to decompress underwater. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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Business | The compressed air and the lighting systems together with the heating and the air conditioning are also important issues. (references) | |
In addition to the production process, a significant part of the total energy consumption concerns the compressed air and the lighting systems, and, to a lesser extent, the heating/air-conditioning system. (references) | ||
Best prospects are for products under Harmonized System (HS) codes 84.16.10.00, 84.19.31.00, 84.03.10.00, 85.16.60.00, 84.21.21.00, 85.12.10.00, 85.36.50.00, 90.25.11.00, 90.25.19.00 and 90.90.00.00 including furnaces, dryers, heating generators and burners, pumps, compressed air systems, lighting, thermometers, and water heaters. (references) | ||
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Expressions using "compressed air": compressed air disease ♦ compressed air illness ♦ compressed air pump. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "compressed air"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | trykluft (compressed air pressure, hydropneumatic, induced air), komprimeret luft. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | samengeperste lucht, perslucht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | paineilma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | air comprimé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | druckluft (breathable air from compressor), pressluft. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπιεσμένος αέρας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aria compressa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 圧縮空気 , 圧搾空気 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あっしゅくくうき, あっさくくうき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ompressedcay airay ar comprimido. (various references) aire comprimido. (various references) tryckluft, komprimerad luft. (various references) sıkıştırılmış hava. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: comraderies. | |
-3 letters: careerisms, compressed, decompress, despairers, madrepores, madreporic, misrecords, rosemaries, sarcomeres, semisacred, spermaries. | |
-4 letters: airdromes, airspeeds, camporees, capsomers, careerism, casimeres, cassimere, coadmires, compadres, comparers, compassed, comprised, comprises, copremias, depressor, descriers, despairer, diaspores, disarmers, disperser, draperies, idocrases, impressed, isomerase, madrepore, medicares, mesocarps, midspaces, misorders, misparsed, misrecord, misspaced, parecisms, peasecods, periderms, perisarcs, picadores, premedics, prescored. | |
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