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pressure suits

pressure suits is the plural of pressure suit.

Meaning of pressure suit

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

Questions about pressure suits

What is pressure suits the plural of?
Pressure suits is the plural of pressure suit.

Words near pressure suits in the dictionary

  1. pressure ridge
  2. pressure ridges
  3. pressure sore
  4. pressure sores
  5. pressure suit
  6. pressure suits
  7. pressure switch
  8. pressure switches
  9. pressure ulcer
  10. pressure ulcers
  11. pressure valve

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