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pressure suit

pressure suit noun: a sealed, full-body garment, usually with an attachable helmet, which maintains air pressure or mechanical pressure around the body of an astronaut or aviator to compensate for the low density of the air at high altitudes.

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Noun

pressure suit (plural pressure suits)

  1. A sealed, full-body garment, usually with an attachable helmet, which maintains air pressure or mechanical pressure around the body of an astronaut or aviator to compensate for the low density of the air at high altitudes.
    • Have you fur pressure-suits?1928 September, E. E. Smith, Lee Hawkins Garby, “The Skylark of Space”, in Amazing Stories, volume 3, number 6, page 539
    • The chances for survival would be greatly increased if one member of the crew in a punctured ship was wearing a pressure suit.1964 November 19, Walter Sullivan, “Apes Surviving in Vacuum Tests: Research Hints Astronauts Have Chance in Accidents”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 May 2014

pressure suit meaning in Tamil

pressure suit in Tamil

அழுத்தம் தாங்கும் உடை

Examples of pressure suit in a sentence

  • In 1947 he had taken a de Havilland Vampire jet fighter to a then world record height of 59,460 feet, without a pressure suit,2002 July 29, Nigel Fountain, “Obituary: John Cunningham, Wartime night-fighter hero and post-war Comet airliner test pilot”, in The...
  • Alan Shepard, the first American in space, famously relieved himself inside his silver pressure suit while waiting out the countdown in his tiny Mercury capsule.2011 April 12, Jeffrey Kluger, “Gagarin's Golden Anniversary”, in Time, retrieved 03 May 2014:

Forms of pressure suit

pluralpressure suits

Origin of pressure suit

Coined by American science fiction authors E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby in their 1928 novel The Skylark of Space, first serialized in Amazing Stories.

Questions about pressure suit

What does pressure suit mean?
Pressure suit means a sealed, full-body garment, usually with an attachable helmet, which maintains air pressure or mechanical pressure around the body of an astronaut or aviator to compensate for the low density of the air at high altitudes.
What is pressure suit in Tamil?
Pressure suit in Tamil is அழுத்தம் தாங்கும் உடை. See Pressure suit meaning in Tamil.
How do you use pressure suit in a sentence?
In 1947 he had taken a de Havilland Vampire jet fighter to a then world record height of 59,460 feet, without a pressure suit,
What part of speech is pressure suit?
Pressure suit is a noun.
What is the plural of pressure suit?
The plural of pressure suit is pressure suits.

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