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Definition of Air bag
1. Noun. A safety restraint in an automobile; the bag inflates on collision and prevents the driver or passenger from being thrown forward.
Group relationships: Auto, Automobile, Car, Machine, Motorcar
Definition of Air bag
1. Noun. A car safety device that deploys when a road vehicle gets in an accident. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Bag
Literary usage of Air bag
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear: Including a Sketch of Aural by Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1891)
"Having introduced the catheter we may force air through it into the cavity of
the tympanum, by means of an air-bag whose nozzle should fit accurately in the ..."
2. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1877)
"In such cases an air-bag is attached to the end of the thin rope, and this bag
being inflated, acquires an ascending power sufficient to carry with it a ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1833)
"From these insufficient experiments it was inferred, that the air contained in
the air-bag is a secretion; that in fishes which live near the surface azote ..."
4. Manual of Diseases of the Ear: Including Those of the Nose and Throat in by Thomas Barr (1896)
"While the catheter is being introduced, the air-bag may be conveniently held in
the left arm-pit of the surgeon. Mode of Inflation. The catheter having been ..."
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