gasket
IPA: gˈæskʌt
noun
- (sailing) A length of rope or canvas band used for reefing a sail, or holding a stowed sail in place.
- (mechanics) Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.
- A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration.
- Any of a wide variety of seals or packings used between matched machine parts or around pipe joints to prevent the escape of a gas or fluid.
verb
- To fit a gasket
- To seal wth a gasket
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Examples of "gasket" in Sentences
- A method of making a composite gasket.
- Also available are locking gasket systems.
- The canonical example is the Sierpinski gasket.
- A second gasket is spaced from each first gasket.
- A protective gasket for the chime of a container.
- The connection is sealed with a compressed gasket.
- The gasket portion of the lid is relatively fragile.
- A gasket seals the weir plate to the inside wall of the conduit.
- This allowed movement across the gasket face and subsequent gasket failure.
- The gasket means includes at least one gasket member having a flat surface.
- And I agree, he looks as to be not far away from blowing a major brain gasket.
- The hexagonal gasket is composed of of six rings, which are made up of six rings, and so on.
- A leaky valve they say, indicated by a repetitive loud hissing from the main gasket. frennzy said ...
- The 'gasket' between magwell and magazine is actually a soft durometer silicone seal that is bonded to the magazine.
- When things heat up, bike helmets with plenty of ventilation to keep your noggin from blowing a gasket are a good thing.
- Turned out the gasket in the joint was in backwards, and once reversed and finger-tightened it no longer leaked (well, maybe seeped a little).
- Long story short ... he says I've got a "busted radiator" and that if I drive it anywhere, I risk blowing a head gasket which is something even Donald Trump can't afford to have fixed.
- A rectangular silicone O-ring "gasket" is integrated at this juncture to form a seal between the inserted magazine and the magwell, so foreign debris can come up the magwell and into the weapon or magazine.