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pneumatic post

pneumatic post noun: a postal service delivering messages through pneumatic tubes.

Noun

pneumatic post (countable and uncountable, plural pneumatic posts)

  1. A postal service delivering messages through pneumatic tubes.
    • Long before email and SMS, the pneumatic post was the quickest way to send a written message of condolence, a declaration of love or even a demand for ransom. Systems for delivering messages through tubes by the force of compressed air originate in experiments undertaken by George Medhurst and...2021, Jacob Paskins, “Pneumatic Postal System”, in Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Miranda Critchley, editors, Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects, Reaktion Books, →ISBN...

Forms of pneumatic post

pluralpneumatic posts

Questions about pneumatic post

What does pneumatic post mean?
Pneumatic post means a postal service delivering messages through pneumatic tubes.
What part of speech is pneumatic post?
Pneumatic post is a noun.
What is the plural of pneumatic post?
The plural of pneumatic post is pneumatic posts.

Words near pneumatic post in the dictionary

  1. pneumatic bones
  2. pneumatic device
  3. pneumatic devices
  4. pneumatic drill
  5. pneumatic drills
  6. pneumatic post
  7. pneumatic trough
  8. pneumatic troughs
  9. pneumatical
  10. pneumatically
  11. pneumaticities

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