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pressure suit
noun
: an inflatable suit for high-altitude or space flight to protect the body from low pressure
Examples of pressure suit in a Sentence
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At that point, Wilmore and Williams can get out of their pressure suits and change into more comfortable clothing for the rest of the flight to the space station.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 June 2024
In the first, humans simply raise Mars’ atmospheric pressure until space colonists can walk around with a breathing apparatus instead of the full astronaut pressure suit used in spacewalks.
—John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2018
The astronauts will put on their orange pressure suits for some of these activities, according to Parsons.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2023
In such a case, the astronauts, wearing flame-resistant pressure suits, would exit the Orion spacecraft's hatch and dart across one level of the tower, then climb into baskets designed to slide down cables to a terminus about a quarter-mile west of the launch pad.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2023
This time, the crew would step outside Dragon to perform a spacewalk using pressure suits designed by SpaceX.
Also in April, Boeing is expected to launch a pair of NASA astronauts to the space station on the first crewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft.
—Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
It is piloted by a single human who must wear a full pressure suit, like an astronaut.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
An artist recently donated two prints of the early 20th century Wiley Post pressure suit and an astronaut in the NASA AX-5 pressure suit.
—Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2021
Some people get claustrophobia in a pressure suit.
—Jim Clash, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1936, in the meaning defined above
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“Pressure suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pressure%20suit. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
Medical Definition
pressure suit
noun
: an inflatable suit for high-altitude or space flight to protect the body from low pressure
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