On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Airlock. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as chamber and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Airlock meaning
- A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in.
- A vestibule, foyer or entranceway with doors to the exterior on one end and doors to the interior on the other, functioning to keep indoor and outdoor air, humidity, and air temperatures separate.
- Alternative form of air lock.
Synonyms of Airlock
Using Airlock
- The main meaning on this page is: A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in. | A vestibule, foyer or entranceway with doors to the exterior on one end and doors to the interior on the other, functioning to keep indoor and outdoor air, humidity, and air temperatures separate. | Alternative form of air lock.
- Useful related words include: air lock, chamber.
- In the example corpus, airlock often appears in combinations such as: an airlock, the airlock, quest airlock.
Context around Airlock
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Airlock
- In this selection, "airlock" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, quest, plastic, commercial, leakage, actually and added stand out and add context to how "airlock" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as and airlock leakage have and closing its airlock and is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "airlock" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with airlock
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
On the other side of the airlock was a total vacuum. (11 words)
The equipment airlock is a cylindrical chamber 14 meters long and over 9 meters in diameter. (16 words)
As the ISS enters its twenties, maintenance issues, such as and airlock leakage, have emerged in recent years. (18 words)
Floating in the Quest airlock, Expedition 56 commander Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold switched their spacesuits to battery power at 8:06 a.m. EDT (GMT-4), kicking off what turned out to be a six-hour 49-minute excursion. (40 words)
An outward opening hatch on the MIR space station failed after it swung open too fast after unlatching, because of a small amount of air pressure remaining in the airlock. citation A different entry was used, and the hatch repaired. (40 words)
As he and Harry exit the airlock, Harry rips off A.J.'s air hose and shoves him back inside, telling him that he is the son Harry never had and gives his blessing to marry Grace. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Since the spacecraft they're using—the SpaceX Dragon—has no airlock, the inside of the capsule will be exposed to the vacuum of space, with all the crew members wearing spacesuits.
These include an entrance with an airlock, a living area and operations area, as well as the usual kitchen and bathroom that you'd expect were necessary in a space where people were holed up together.
As the ISS enters its twenties, maintenance issues, such as and airlock leakage, have emerged in recent years.
Crewmates must complete tasks around the ship or base and try to stay alive, and Impostors must sabotage and kill the Crewmates without getting ejected through the airlock.
During the process, my plastic airlock actually broke so I put on the cap and have been burping the gases out every day after I wake up and before I go to sleep.
It will be the first commercial airlock added to the ISS and will attach to a port on US Node 3, known as Tranquility.
Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi assisted the duo from inside the space station, while all three then cleaned up the Quest airlock, where they stowed their spacesuits and tools.
Now, researchers led by Professor Roland Beckmann at the LMU Gene Center have reported evidence which suggests that mitochondria accomplish this challenging feat by making use of the airlock principle.
Please Note: pick up your badges from the airlock downstairs at the library, located at the bottom of the ramp leading down to the children’s area.
Customers have the option of selecting an AirLock with either of the common Schrader or Presta air valves.
I’ve seen a lot of games sent out to die, but Need for Speed: Heat has been basically shoved out an airlock into the vacuum of space.
Jessica Meir, left, and Christina Koch pose in the space station's airlock holding the power tools they used in the first all-female spacewalk.
On the other side of the airlock was a total vacuum.
Floating in the Quest airlock, Expedition 56 commander Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold switched their spacesuits to battery power at 8:06 a.m. EDT (GMT-4), kicking off what turned out to be a six-hour 49-minute excursion.
The equipment airlock is a cylindrical chamber 14 meters long and over 9 meters in diameter.
An outward opening hatch on the MIR space station failed after it swung open too fast after unlatching, because of a small amount of air pressure remaining in the airlock. citation A different entry was used, and the hatch repaired.
As he and Harry exit the airlock, Harry rips off A.J.'s air hose and shoves him back inside, telling him that he is the son Harry never had and gives his blessing to marry Grace.
At the end of his space walk, the suit stiffening caused a more serious problem: Leonov had to re-enter the capsule through the inflatable cloth airlock, convert in diameter and convert long.
Finally, Armitage becomes the shattered Corto again, but his newfound personality is short-lived, as he is killed when Wintermute ejects him through an airlock into space.
He separates the bridge section from the rest of the yacht without closing its airlock, and is killed when the launch ejects him into space.
Common combinations with airlock
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an airlock 8×
- the airlock 7×
- quest airlock 2×
- airlock into 2×
- airlock was 2×
- airlock and 2×
- airlock to 2×