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A sealed, full-body garment, usually with an attachable helmet, which maintains air pressure or mechanical pressure around the body of an astronaut or aviator to compensate for the low density of the air at high altitudes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, astronautics, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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protective garment consisting of an inflatable suit for space or high altitude flying
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: protective garment
Narrower terms: anti-G suit, G suit, spacesuit
Coined by American science fiction authors E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby in their 1928 novel The Skylark of Space, first serialized in Amazing Stories.
Across languages
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2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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German:
Druckanzug
— full-body garment, which maintains pressure
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Polish:
skafander ciśnieniowy
— full-body garment, which maintains pressure
