pressure suit

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nounAerospace.

Origin of pressure suit

1
First recorded in 1935–40

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How to use pressure suit in a sentence

  • He was struggling to make himself think when he saw Nagel leap for his pressure suit.

    First on the Moon | Jeff Sutton

British Dictionary definitions for pressure suit

pressure suit

noun
  1. an inflatable suit worn by a person flying at high altitudes or in space, to provide protection from low pressure

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