Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A flat ring made of rubber or plastic, used as a gasket.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a gasket consisting of a flat ring of rubber or plastic; used to seal a joint against high pressure
Examples
“Engineers redesigned the O-ring joints and added a bailout system for the crew's use in an emergency.”
USA Today: 25 years later: How the Challenger disaster brought NASA down to earth
“McAuliffe and six others on board perished as the cameras rolled, victims of stiff O-ring seals and feeble bureaucratic decisions.”
The Huffington Post: Challenger: 25 Years Later, A Still Painful Wound
“It was the victim of an O-ring failure in its right-side rocket booster, believed to have been caused by Florida's unseasonably cold weather that week.”
The Huffington Post: Jim Noles: Twenty-Five Years Ago, We Lost More Than a Space Shuttle
“But engineers gradually accepted foam loss as routine, just as they had gradually accepted O-ring damage as routine.”
USA Today: 25 years later: How the Challenger disaster brought NASA down to earth
“There's no point, and if I hear one more person in the media say follow us on Twitter, I just may blow an O-ring.”
“An adjustable O-ring allows different tone selections, and the Hex is guaranteed not to freeze up, a big deal for northern deer hunters.”
“Other features include dual Wavetype brake rotors, ITP Holeshot SR tires front and rear mounted on aluminum wheels, dual removable headlights, and a heavy-duty 520 O-ring chain.”
“The O-ring fits snug on the rod and snug against the bottom of the barrel.”
“I went to Home Depot in the plumming dept and found a black robber O-ring to slip over the ram rod at the muzzle end.”
“Even 23 perfect launches would not have provided sufficient evidence to confidently predict success for launch number 24, and previous near misses, in the form of partial O-ring burn through, made optimism even more outrageous and unsupportable.”
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