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Definition of Air cushion
1. Noun. The trapped air that supports a hovercraft a short distance above the water or ground.
2. Noun. A mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion.
3. Noun. A cushion usually made of rubber or plastic that can be inflated.
Definition of Air cushion
1. Noun. a layer of trapped air that supports a hovercraft ¹
2. Noun. a shock absorber that uses an air chamber ¹
3. Noun. a rubber or plastic inflatable cushion ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Cushion
Literary usage of Air cushion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1902)
"These same laws have also required the installation of an air-cushion of a depth
not less than one-sixth of the rise of the car, willy-nilly, ..."
2. Memories of a Musical Career by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1919)
"CHAPTER XII A SHOWER OF COCKTAILS — GIN COCKTAIL VERSUS SEASICKNESS — EFFECT OF
COCKTAILS ON AN air cushion — IN LIVERPOOL AGAIN — AN UGLY PLIGHT — A ..."
3. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1898)
"... OF BAGGAGE —WATCHES, COMPASSES AND ANEROIDS—FEAR AND AVIDITY—THE AIR-CUSHION —DRAGGED
INTO THE ENCAMPMENT THEY lifted me and made me stand up. ..."
4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1896)
"In a small working model which was shown at the meeting of the Society, a large
ordinary air-cushion took the place of the chamber B and the regulator C. It ..."
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