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AIR POCKET

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Dictionary entry overview: What does air pocket mean?

• AIR POCKET (noun)
The noun AIR POCKET has 1 sense:

1. a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly

Familiarity information: AIR POCKET used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AIR POCKET (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

air hole; air pocket; pocket

Hypernyms ("air pocket" is a kind of...):

atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

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