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air shaft

air shaft is the alternative form of airshaft.

Meaning of airshaft

Noun

airshaft (plural airshafts)

  1. A vertical (or near vertical) opening (shaft) running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.
    • There was a warren of big cabins instead, many levels opening onto walkways around a common airshaft.1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18
    Synonyms:
    air well, ventilation shaft, vent shaft, lightwell
  2. A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
  3. A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as in continuous-process printing presses.

Forms of air shaft

pluralair shafts

Questions about air shaft

What is air shaft the alternative form of?
Air shaft is the alternative form of airshaft.

Words near air shaft in the dictionary

  1. Air Scouting
  2. Air Scouts
  3. air scribe
  4. Air Sea Rescue
  5. air sense
  6. air shaft
  7. air shafts
  8. air shed
  9. air sheds
  10. air ship
  11. air shipped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: air shaft (page history and authors); airshaft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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