Airshaft

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A vertical (or near vertical) opening (shaft) running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.

    "There was a warren of big cabins instead, many levels opening onto walkways around a common airshaft."

  2. 2
    A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
  3. 3
    A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as in continuous-process printing presses.

Synonyms

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air wellair welllightwellvent shaftventilation shaft

Example

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"There was a warren of big cabins instead, many levels opening onto walkways around a common airshaft."

Etymology

From air + shaft.

Related phrases

printing pressweb fedwinding reel

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