Definition of Air spring

1. Noun. A mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion.

Exact synonyms: Air Cushion
Generic synonyms: Cushion, Shock, Shock Absorber

Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Spring

air ships
air show
air shower
air shows
air sick
air sickness
air sign
air signs
air sleeve
air sock
air space
air spaces
air splint
air sport
air sports
air spring (current term)
air station
air stove
air stoves
air strike
air strikes
air superiority
air support
air supremacy
air suspension
air syringe
air tanker
air tankers
air taxi
air taxis

Literary usage of Air spring

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)
"air spring or plunger type shock absorber consists of an air chamber made up of two sections, one of which telescopes into the other. ..."

2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1856)
"Improved Air-Spring for Rail-road Cars.—An improved air-spring has recently been introduced on tho Baltimore and Ohio Kail-road, of a novel construction. ..."

3. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1856)
"Improved Air-Spring for Rail-road Cars.—An improved air-spring has recently been introduced on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road, of a novel construction. ..."

4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1851)
"NEW AIR-SPRING FOR DOORS OR GATES. MR. GEORGE BEATTIE has described to the Royal ... The air-spring consists of an iron box and cover let into the floor, ..."

5. Elements of Machine Construction and Drawing: Or, Machine Drawing, with Some by Samuel Edward Warren (1872)
"In addition to the weight of the hammer, and the reaction of the upper air spring upon the piston, the upper head of the cylinder as it comes down drives ..."

6. Proceedings of the International Electrical Congress Held in the City of (1894)
"With the piston above referred to there is associated in one of his models in an independent chamber an air spring, or dash pot, or else he obtains the ..."

7. Proceedings of the International Electrical Congress Held in the City of (1894)
"With the piston above referred to there is associated in one of his models in an independent chamber an air spring, or dash pot, or else he obtains the ..."

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