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Definition of Air passage

1. Noun. A duct that provides ventilation (as in mines).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Passage

Literary usage of Air passage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"First or primary «tag», when starting and usual running conditions: 1 is the hot air passage of the primary carburetor containing the choke valve 2. ..."

2. Proceedings (1889)
"... partially disjointed or disconnected air passage, as shown by the diagrams and specimen pipes which are now before you, and which special air passage I ..."

3. Transactions by East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society (1901)
"3 in. high, domed, into which the air passage from the room behind the vestibule also opens; it contains three niches, from one of which the air space ..."

4. The Ontario Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the Queen's by Ontario High Court of Justice (1885)
"The vertical ventilating flue H in combination with a cold air passage or passages G from ... The cold air passage (J from the sides of the ice chamber R in ..."

5. The Writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1905)
"If this Air-Passage be so situated as that Mice may enter it and nestle in the Hollow, a little Grate of Wire will keep them out ..."

6. Compressed Air; Practical Information Upon Air-compression and the by Frank Richards (1895)
"The pressure is thus falling in the air-passage, on account of its supplying the smaller cylinder, and at the same time compression is going on in the ..."

7. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1874)
"A branch from tho hot-air passage Q to the two sido openings T, T, Fig. 7273, ensures a proper supply of hot air to each of these openings. ..."

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