0 a room between two areas that have different air pressure, allowing you to go from one area to the other:
Airlocks are commonly found on submarines and manned spacecraft.
1 a bubble in a pipe that prevents liquid from flowing along it
The path through which the naval artillery's ammunition passed typically has blast-resistant airlocks and other safety devices, including provisions to flood the compartment with seawater in an emergency.
The remainder of the bridge foundations consisted of cast iron piers fitted with cutting shoes sunk by excavation by hand labour working in airlocks, and by weighting.
Sandhogs, as they were termed, entered the tunnel through a series of airlocks, and could only remain inside of the tunnel for a designated time period.
They have airlocks and working pumps.
We inquired about this very point, and we found that the airlock was a commercial article, the price of which was known.
An airlock collapsed while men were working under high pressure, and six men lost their lives.
The answer to that probably is to have an airlock—two doors—so that passengers can go through one, shut it and then come out through the other one.
They get locked in an airlock losing atmosphere due to a damaged patch.
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