hermetically sealed
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See hermetic
Verb
[edit]- simple past and past participle of hermetically seal
Adjective
[edit]- Sealed with an airtight hermetic seal.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine:
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
Synonyms
[edit]- staunch (not interchangeable)
Translations
[edit]airtight
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References
[edit]- “hermetically sealed”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.