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gastight

adj

Etymology

From gas + tight.

  1. derived from *ten-✻ — “to stretch, pull”
  2. derived from *tenkt-✻ — “dense, thick, tight”
  3. inherited from *þinhtaz✻
  4. inherited from *þį̄ht(ī)✻
  5. inherited from *þiht✻
  6. inherited from tight
  7. compounded as gastight — “gas + tight”

Definitions

  1. impermeable to gases

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gastight. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA