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Definition of Airtight
1. Adjective. Having no weak points. "An airtight argument"
2. Adjective. Not allowing air or gas to pass in or out.
Definition of Airtight
1. a. So tight as to be impermeable to air; as, an air-tight cylinder.
2. n. A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off.
Definition of Airtight
1. Adjective. Being impermeable to air or other gases. ¹
2. Adjective. (figuratively) Having no weak points or flaws (as in an "airtight" argument). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Airtight
1. not allowing air to escape or enter [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Airtight
Literary usage of Airtight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Make Insurance Companies Pay Your Claims by William M. Shernoff (1990)
"How to File an airtight Insurance Claim I DON'T LEAVE ROOM FOR EXCUSES Knowing
how to file an airtight claim and how to challenge an undesirable settlement ..."
2. The American Amateur Photographer (1906)
"airtight CORKS.—One of the pharmaceutical organs suggests the following method
for making corks airtight, and it may be useful to those who do not care to ..."
3. The London Journal of Arts and Sciences by William Newton (1825)
"It may be preserved many years in bottles or casks, airtight, without losing
either its quality or weight. The long, er it is kept the more effectual. ..."
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