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Pressure suit Moderate

Origin: Latin prefix pre-

Pressure suit has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

protective garment consisting of an inflatable suit for space or high altitude flying

2

A sealed, full-body garment, usually with an attachable helmet, which maintains air pressure or mechanical pressure around the body of an astronaut or aviator to compensate for the low density of the air at high altitudes.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
protective garment
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
anti-G suit spacesuit
Rhyming Words
huit quit suit tuit nuit fruit inuit pruit bruit douit squit g suit jesuit besuit acquit intuit requit unsuit fortuit conduit
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