Pneumatic

Word PNEUMATIC
Character 9
Hyphenation pneu mat ic
Pronunciations /n(j)ʊˈmæ.tɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Pneumatic"

What do we mean by pneumatic?

Of or relating to air or other gases. adjective

Of or relating to pneumatics. adjective

Run by or using compressed air. adjective

Filled with air, especially compressed air. adjective

Having cavities filled with air, as the bones of certain birds. adjective

Of or relating to the pneuma; spiritual. adjective

In theology, relating to the spirit or pneuma, as distinguished from both soul and body; spiritual. See soul and spirit.

An inflatable rubber tire. noun

A vehicle, as a bicycle, motor-cycle, or motorcar, lifted with inflatable rubber tires. noun

Of or pertaining to air, or gases in general, or their properties; also, employing (compressed) air or other gas as a motive power, as, pneumatic experiments; a pneumatic engine.

Consisting of or resembling air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous.

Moved or played by means of air: as, a pneumatic instrument of music.

In zoology: Filled with air; fitted to receive or contain air; pneumatized, as the air-cells or the bones of birds

Of or pertaining to the respiratory system of any animal

A caisson within which compressed air excludes the water, permitting necessary operations to be carried on inside it.

In organ-building, one of the members of a pneumatic action, whether a bellows or a tube. See pneumatic action, above. noun

Same as pneumatology, 2, where see quotation. noun

Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid. adjective

Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics. adjective

A vehicle, such as a bicycle, whose wheels are fitted with pneumatic tyres.

(gnosticism) In the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man, the highest type; a person focused on spiritual reality (the other two being hylic and psychic).

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The word "pneumatic" in example sentences

It's fitted with what they call a pneumatic cushion -- I mean, if anything goes wrong, the lift falls into a funnel shaped well, made of concrete, which forms a cushion of air, and so breaks the fall. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Baltic newts are equipped with a new, normally peaceful, apparatus called the pneumatic drill which is capable of drilling ten metres deep into the best Swedish granite in an hour and can penetrate fifty or sixty metres deep into English chalk in the same time? ❋ Unknown (2006)

"I wasn't sure about the word pneumatic," Allison Black said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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