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pressurized, ppl. a.|ˈprɛʃəraɪzd|
[f. as prec. + -ed1.]
1. Containing, or made to contain, fluid under pressure.
a. Of an aircraft cabin, spacesuit, etc.: designed to maintain an interior air pressure close to normal atmospheric pressure in a low-pressure environment.
1938Time 23 May 33 Without pressurized cabins, planes now fly as high as 14,000 feet. 1945Times 2 Oct. 2/4 It has a pressurized cabin which, up to a height of 20,000 ft., maintains a pressure inside the passengers' cabin equivalent to that at 8,000 ft. 1949Archit. Rev. CV. 237/2 A very highly streamlined low-wing, four-motor monoplane, with tricycle undercarriage and pressurized cabin. 1951A. C. Clarke Across Sea of Stars (1959) 4 We could live comfortable for a month in our pressurised tractors. 1958Times 28 Aug. 9/4 ‘Colonists’ [on the moon]..unable to quit their pressurized suits for a moment. 1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics xiii. 516 (caption) First pressurized suit..was developed for Wiley Post and worn by him in 1934. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places i. 3 They were protected from the thin, cold air by the pressurized cabins of two Boeing 707s.
b. Of an aerosol container or spray.
1955Industr. & Engin. Chem. June 1198/1 Aerosol products are pressurized, self-spraying products that at the press of a valve button deliver an active ingredient in a fine spray (insecticides and room deodorants), a heavier spray (paints and enamels), a foam (shave creams), and newest among the applications, a dry powder. 1958Times 24 Nov. 11/5 Helena Rubinstein has a new pressurized scent spray. 1961Lancet 2 Sept. 506/1 It was decided to recommend that the surgical staff should use..a pressurised powder spray of polybactrin. 1976Which? Feb. 37/1 Technically, an aerosol is simply a fine spray. Most people use the word to describe the pressurised can that produces a spray.
2. Of a fluid: increased in pressure; pressurized-water reactor, a nuclear reactor in which the coolant is water at high pressure.
1953Chem. & Engin. News 3 Aug. 3187/3 The AEC is continuing research and development work on the pressurized water reactor. 1957E. Hyams Into Dreams iii. vi. 236 As if the pressurized air contained some poison of the mind. 1958Times Rev. Industry July 32/2 Pressurized fluid is fed to the power valve which..actuates the brake. 1960Economist 22 Oct. 392/2 One important aspect of Dreadnought is that it gives British technicians a first experience of a pressurised water reactor. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XI. 363/1 The sodium-cooled reactor originally installed on the submarine USS Seawolf has been replaced by a pressurized-water reactor. 1968M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xviii. 182 Find out if there's still pressurized gas within the casing. 1977Sci. Amer. June 46/1 The lower piston rests against the dividing plate, supported by a cushion of pressurized nitrogen gas.
3. fig. Of a person or situation: subject to pressure; under moral, mental, or social pressure or constraint.
1959Times 30 Nov. 4/1 This age of pressurized competition. 1965Punch 22 Sept. 425/2 This going out of London has made the job very pressurised. Weekends are hectic. |