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Definition of Self-sealing

1. Adjective. Capable of sealing itself as after being pierced. "Self-sealing tires"

2. Adjective. Seals without the application of moisture. "Self-sealing envelopes"

Definition of Self-sealing

1. Adjective. A device with seals that activate without special procedures. ¹

2. Adjective. Describing a container that is capable of automatically closing off leaks that form in it. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-sealing

self-retaining catheter self-right self-righteous self-righteously self-righteousness self-rising self-rising flour self-rule self-sabotage self-sacrifice

self-sacrifices self-sacrificing self-same self-satisfaction self-satisfied self-sealing (current term) self-secure self-seeded self-seeker self-seeking

self-selection self-selections self-serve self-service self-serving self-similar self-similarities self-similarity self-slaughter self-soar

Literary usage of Self-sealing

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

1. Through Town and Jungle: Fourteen Thousand Miles A-wheel Among the Temples by William Hunter Workman, Fanny Bullock Workman (1904)
"... to Cycle Tyres—self-sealing Air Tubes. FORTY miles farther west is Gadag in Dharwar. Here are to be found two early Jain temples of remarkable beauty. ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"He turned upon me a glassy but yet shining gray eye, and answered me in accents already familiar to my ear: ' Four-and-twenty self-sealing envelopes, ..."

3. Pneumatic Tires, Automobile, Truck, Airplane, Motorcycle, Bicycle: An by Henry Clemens Pearson (1922)
"... self-sealing DOOR Extending from the lower half of the flange of the vulcanizer shell is a lip with a concentric groove, into which the lower half of ..."

4. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1909)
"The Rixford Self-Sealing Fig.—The best studied of these self-sealing ... Another self-sealing variety was discovered on October 20, 1908, by Mr. A. II. ..."

5. Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes: Comprising Interesting by Richard Miller Devens (1865)
"He turned upon me a glassy but yet shining gray eye, and answered me in accents already familiar to my ear—" Four-and-twenty self-sealing envelopes, ..."

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