Sentence examples for depressurize from inspiring English sources
The word "depressurize" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in contexts related to reducing pressure in a physical environment, such as in aviation or engineering. Example: "The cabin crew instructed passengers to fasten their seatbelts as the plane began to depressurize." Alternatives include "release pressure" or "equalize pressure."
verb
To reduce the air pressure within a chamber.
Another technique is to depressurize ahead by drain holes (or small drainage drifts on each side), an extreme example being the 1968 Japanese handling of extraordinarily difficult water and rock conditions on the Rokko Railroad Tunnel, using approximately three-quarters of a mile of drainage drifts and five miles of drain holes in a one-quarter-mile length of the main tunnel.
Since a whole-house fan can move 4,000 cubic feet of air a minute, it will quickly depressurize a house and can cause back drafts in combustion appliances like gas water heaters.
It is a chance for them to relax, depressurize and find themselves before returning to their brutal division schedules.
The panel of aviation experts that reported to the transportation secretary on Monday crossed into some areas that no one seems to have a conclusive judgment about, among them whether a crew trying to foil hijackers should intentionally depressurize the plane in flight or perhaps put it into a dive.
For example, Patrick Shea, a lawyer who was a member of the Gore Commission on Aviation Safety and Security in 1996-97, thed the pilots that their planes should be modified to allow them to depressurize the passenger cabin, to disable everyone inside.
Soyuz 11 carried the inaugural crew to the Salyut 1 station in June 1971, but, after a record-setting 23 days aboard, the three cosmonauts died when their descent module accidentally depressurized while returning to Earth.
Otherwise, a blowout could occur, depressurizing the tunnel and possibly losing the heading as soil enters.
They cited medical literature showing that people sometimes become hypoxic without even realizing it, as when a pilot's cockpit depressurizes at high altitude.
But engineers have long known that metal fatigue can develop as a plane's cabin is pressurized then depressurized over tens of thousands of takeoffs and landings.
When it is depressurized, it reverts to pure water with a neutral pH level.
Get a blower door, which depressurizes a house so that even the tiniest drafts blow like a stiff wind.
