How do you use Extravehicular in a sentence? See 5 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Extravehicular in a sentence
Extravehicular meaning
Relating to, on happening in, the space outside a vehicle, especially a spacecraft in space
Using Extravehicular
- The main meaning on this page is: Relating to, on happening in, the space outside a vehicle, especially a spacecraft in space
- In the example corpus, extravehicular often appears in combinations such as: extravehicular activity, extravehicular mobility, eva extravehicular.
Context around Extravehicular
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Extravehicular
- In this selection, "extravehicular" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 30 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, eva, activity and mobility stand out and add context to how "extravehicular" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include conduct an extravehicular activity eva and first eva extravehicular activity by. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "extravehicular" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with extravehicular
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
When the United States resumed EVAs on April 7, 1983, astronauts started using an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) for self-contained life support independent of the spacecraft. (27 words)
As the need for extravehicular activity grew, suits such as the Apollo A7L included gloves made of a metal fabric called Chromel-r in order to prevent punctures. (28 words)
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to conduct an extravehicular activity (EVA), (commonly called a "spacewalk"), on March 18, 1965, on the Soviet Union's Voskhod 2 mission. (29 words)
Seven undergraduate students in the UW College of Engineering and Physical Sciences dubbed the UW Space Rangers, designed and built the Lunar Lasso, a device that can install a zip tie during extravehicular activity in microgravity. (36 words)
It will be the first EVA (extravehicular activity) by two women in the 54 years since the late Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov carried out history's first spacewalk in 1965. (30 words)
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to conduct an extravehicular activity (EVA), (commonly called a "spacewalk"), on March 18, 1965, on the Soviet Union's Voskhod 2 mission. (29 words)
Example sentences (5)
Seven undergraduate students in the UW College of Engineering and Physical Sciences dubbed the UW Space Rangers, designed and built the Lunar Lasso, a device that can install a zip tie during extravehicular activity in microgravity.
It will be the first EVA (extravehicular activity) by two women in the 54 years since the late Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov carried out history's first spacewalk in 1965.
As the need for extravehicular activity grew, suits such as the Apollo A7L included gloves made of a metal fabric called Chromel-r in order to prevent punctures.
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to conduct an extravehicular activity (EVA), (commonly called a "spacewalk"), on March 18, 1965, on the Soviet Union's Voskhod 2 mission.
When the United States resumed EVAs on April 7, 1983, astronauts started using an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) for self-contained life support independent of the spacecraft.
Common combinations with extravehicular
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- extravehicular activity 7×
- extravehicular mobility 3×
- eva extravehicular 2×
- exploration extravehicular 2×
- of extravehicular 2×
- an extravehicular 2×