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US
/ˈpɹɛʃɝˌaɪz/
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VERB
- increase the pressure on a gas or liquid
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increase the pressure in or of
The captain will pressurize the cabin for the passengers' comfort -
maintain a certain pressure
the airplane cabin is pressurized
pressurize a space suit
How To Use pressurize In A Sentence
- We saw in the previous sections that packaged bacteriophage capsids are pressurized with pressures as high as 60 atm.
- The envelope is a helium gas cell, with an air ballonet which is pressurized by a ballonet fan.
- These portable torches use pressurized tanks of propane and, if handled carelessly, can be hazardous.
- Manned Orbiting Laboratory gloves with sharkskin palms and sewn-in steel fingernails, so nimble that an astronaut could pick up a dime while wearing them, even when they were pressurized; long johns laced with plastic pipes, to water-cool the wearer; and box after box of headgear, including Armstrong's gold-visored external helmet, once thought to have been left on the moon. The Seattle Times
- ECLS design can be optimized for operability and common fan designs when sized for 4 persons. 4 person configuration is more robust and safer and allows more robust design solutions and ISS will get more pressurized cargo capability. 6 person capability is still available since Orion didn't change the OML and Orion can always be re-configured to carry 6 persons. Orion Slims Down - NASA Watch
- A recent such program drew about two dozen pilots of high-performance and turbocharged Mooneys for a weekend in Washington, D.C. Some of the airplanes this group flies - all unpressurized - have service ceilings as high as 28,000 feet.
- Several whole windows would have to be blasted out before a plane would depressurize enough to threaten life within the cabin.
- At high altitudes, the thin air makes it hard to breathe unless the cabin is pressurized.
- Filling the Chinese galls in copper container , extract tannic acid by water with pressurized metering pump.
- On the bases it "pressurizes" defenses, as Seattle Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu likes to say. HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News