Sentence examples for The airlock from inspiring English sources
noun
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.
The airlock production will have to go through a series of phases as outlined by an agreement signed by NASA and NanoRacks as a preliminary step ahead of development late last year, and then if all goes according to plan the intent is to launch the airlock on an ISS resupply mission currently slated for 2019.
The airlock will bubble a lot during active fermentation.
The airlock and spoon can be sanitized in the bucket if desired.
The airlock on the pot will let the carbon dioxide out without letting oxygen in.
The airlock is a really important piece of the fermentation process.
The airlock works on the exact same principle that your bathroom sink does for the trap below the basin.
The spacewalkers were back in the airlock before noon.
Outside the airlock, the Zen of space took over.
Swishing through the airlock, clumping down the steps, the hall turns out to be a great, arching, softly lit cavern.
Go, go, go!" so I stepped into the airlock, closed the hatch, depressurised it, opened it – and away I went.
During a Q. & A., a man asked whether the Colonials' use of the "airlock" as an execution device — ejecting the condemned into outer space — was truly justice.
