pressure-tight

The door looked as if it were pressure-tight, maybe the entrance to an environmental chamber.

There was pressure here-but they hadn't come through any pressure-tight doors!

They heard him stop and, a moment later, there came the heavy sound of a pressure-tight door shuffing itself closed.

Along the back wall stood a long row of pressure-tight containers holding about one dozen Mooffs.

The operators and onboard equipment are located in the pressure-tight cabins.

Her hatch for the pressure-tight anti-aircraft gun storage shaft was of particular interest.

The two pressure-tight compartments also enhance safety and survivability of the crew.

Another test confirmed that the bombcase was pressure-tight.

These and even later models lack a pressure-tight building or dome designed to prevent radioactive material from escaping from the plant.

Among the features are pressure-tight cabins to allow comfortable travel through tunnels at high speeds, and step-free access to the cars.

All of Vesta's buildings were pressure-tight.

Part of this hard mineral is later redeposited on the walls of the cracks and fissures to make a nearly pressure-tight system.

We're going to mount our missile launcher in a specially constructed pressure-tight box, and bolt it onto the rear end of the fin.

Check for compartments that are still pressure-tight, then I want you and MacBride to take over on the rescue parties.

The CH-1 was a simple pressure-tight suit with helmet which did not have joints, thus requiring substantial force to move the arms and legs when pressurised.

His eyes flickered down at his right arm, where the slight thickness under the long sleeved tunic indicated a pressure-tight medpad.

The gun is accommodated in the submarine's super structure, in a pressure-tight container and can be hoisted hydraulically like a snorkel.

From a technical point of view, this precursor of today's expansion joints is a large, pressure-tight flexible metal hose with a defined, restricted freedom of movement.

The flight hardware unit, the FOEP, was a pressure-tight canister containing a water-filled centrifuge that housed the two frogs.

This satisfied no one, of course; from time to time my front door actually rattled with the impact of frustrated reporters hurling their bodies against three-inch pressure-tight steel.

Ghosn carefully checked that each reservoir was air- and pressure-tight - it was the sixth such test; the young engineer had learned from his German teacher - then transferred the tritium gas.

Longscrew threads: These are parallel pipe threads used where a pressure-tight joint is achieved by the compression of a soft material (such as an o-ring seal or a washer) between the end face of the male thread and a socket or nipple face, with the tightening of a backnut.