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overpressurization

Definitions

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  • noun An excessive pressurization.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ pressurization; overpressurize +‎ -ation

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  • For additional comments by Armstrong on the concern about tank overpressurization right after the landing, see ALSJ, “The First Lunar Landing,” pp.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • For additional comments by Armstrong on the concern about tank overpressurization right after the landing, see ALSJ, “The First Lunar Landing,” pp.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • For additional comments by Armstrong on the concern about tank overpressurization right after the landing, see ALSJ, “The First Lunar Landing,” pp.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • For additional comments by Armstrong on the concern about tank overpressurization right after the landing, see ALSJ, “The First Lunar Landing,” pp.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • PG&E wants to be free of the 20 percent pressure cut that state regulators imposed in February at the Topock compressor station near Needles San Bernardino County because of an overpressurization incident.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter jvanderbeken@sfchronicle.com (Jaxon Van Derbeken 2011

  • Engineers with the commission had cited "deficiencies" in the method that a PG&E contractor used to test the station over the summer to see whether it had been damaged by the overpressurization.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter jvanderbeken@sfchronicle.com (Jaxon Van Derbeken 2011

  • The discharge created chamber overpressurization which resulted in an explosion and death of the officer.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • There have actually been a couple of deaths already due to this mistake (the A300 cabin altimeter doesn't have a mechanical stop, so on overpressurization, the altimeter will roll around and show a dangerously LOW reading).

    The Volokh Conspiracy 2009

  • Yet these specific symptoms, especially when combined with low cabin altimeter readings in an A300 can indicate overpressurization, in which case an evacuation acutely risk the lives of the cabin crew.

    The Volokh Conspiracy 2009

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