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air lock
noun
1.
Civil Engineering. an airtight chamber permitting passage to or from a space, as in a caisson, in which the air is kept under pressure.
2.
the impedance in the functioning of a pump or a system of piping caused by the presence of an air bubble; vapor lock.
Origin:
1855–60
1855–60
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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air lock
device that permits passage between regions of differing air pressures, most often used for passage between atmospheric pressure and chambers in which the air is compressed, such as pneumatic caissons and underwater tunnels. The air lock also has been used as a design feature of space vehicles; on March 18, 1965, the Soviet cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov passed through an air lock to become the first man to walk in space
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It has an air lock, so the crews can put on spacesuits, and go outside and do work.
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