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Definition of Air jacket
1. Noun. An inflatable life jacket.
Definition of Air jacket
1. Noun. A jacket with airtight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to make the wearer buoyant when swimming. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Jacket
Literary usage of Air jacket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"In Rosenthal's calorimeter the chamber in which the body or part of the body is
placed is surrounded by, not a water-jacket, but an air-jacket, which thus ..."
2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"In Rosenthal's calorimeter the chamber in which the body or part of the body is
placed is surrounded by, not a water-jacket, but an air-jacket, which thus ..."
3. A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar (1878)
"The effect of a steam jacket in preventing condensation may be produced by a hot
air jacket; that is, by a flue round the cylinder ..."
4. The Gas-engine: A Treatise on the Internal-combustion Engine Using Gas by Frederick Remsen Hutton (1903)
"Cooling by Air-jacket. — The inconvenience of carrying the necessary weight of
cooling water in the automobile, and the annoyance which is offered in winter ..."
5. Engineering Chemistry by Thomas Bliss Stillman (1900)
"air jacket. 15 17. 18. 19. 14. Perforated spreading ring. and 16. ... Test hole
in air jacket. 43. Hot water thermometer. combustion chamber surrounded by a ..."
6. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1862)
"The air and water pumps were then set to work, and the greater part of the mud
and oyster shells, which filled the compartment» of the air-jacket at the ..."
7. General Metallurgy by Heinrich Oscar Hofman (1913)
"In blast-furnaces, the smelting-zone is sometimes cooled by an air-jacket, that
is, it is enclosed by steel or copper boxes through which air is forced by ..."
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