|
|
Definition of Air lock
1. Noun. A chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Lock
Literary usage of Air lock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"air lock. A chamber of access to a pneumatic caisson, tunnel heading, or other
enclosure containing compressed air, serving a purpose like that of a lock on ..."
2. Modern Tunnel Practice: Illustrated by Examples Taken from Actual Recent by David McNeely Stauffer (1906)
"Briefly expressed, an air-lock is a means devised by engineers for passing from
the outer air to a working chamber filled with air compressed to a degree ..."
3. Shield and Compressed Air Tunneling by Bertram Henry Majendie Hewett, Sigvald Johannesson (1922)
"An air lock. The angles riveted on the outside are to anchor the lock in the
masonry bulkhead. (Ravenswood Tunnel, A-8.) air side is readily opened for ..."
4. Practical Tunnelling by Frederick Walter Simms, Daniel Kinnear Clark (1896)
"Meanwhile progress had been made with the horizontal air lock in the shaft, as
it was found very inconvenient to have the lifting of the material checked in ..."
Other Resources:
