"explosive decompression" meaning in All languages combined

See explosive decompression on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: explosive decompressions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} explosive decompression (countable and uncountable, plural explosive decompressions)
  1. (aviation, medicine) A situation where the ambient air pressure suddenly drops faster than the air in the lungs can escape, creating a risk of barotrauma to the lung tissue. Tags: countable, uncountable

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "explosive decompressions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "explosive decompression (countable and uncountable, plural explosive decompressions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Aviation",
          "orig": "en:Aviation",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Medicine",
          "orig": "en:Medicine",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A situation where the ambient air pressure suddenly drops faster than the air in the lungs can escape, creating a risk of barotrauma to the lung tissue."
      ],
      "id": "en-explosive_decompression-en-noun-Fzzb~rOS",
      "links": [
        [
          "aviation",
          "aviation"
        ],
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "ambient",
          "ambient"
        ],
        [
          "air pressure",
          "air pressure"
        ],
        [
          "air",
          "air"
        ],
        [
          "lung",
          "lung"
        ],
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ],
        [
          "risk",
          "risk"
        ],
        [
          "barotrauma",
          "barotrauma"
        ],
        [
          "tissue",
          "tissue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation, medicine) A situation where the ambient air pressure suddenly drops faster than the air in the lungs can escape, creating a risk of barotrauma to the lung tissue."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "explosive decompression"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "explosive decompressions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "explosive decompression (countable and uncountable, plural explosive decompressions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Aviation",
        "en:Medicine"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A situation where the ambient air pressure suddenly drops faster than the air in the lungs can escape, creating a risk of barotrauma to the lung tissue."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aviation",
          "aviation"
        ],
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "ambient",
          "ambient"
        ],
        [
          "air pressure",
          "air pressure"
        ],
        [
          "air",
          "air"
        ],
        [
          "lung",
          "lung"
        ],
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ],
        [
          "risk",
          "risk"
        ],
        [
          "barotrauma",
          "barotrauma"
        ],
        [
          "tissue",
          "tissue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation, medicine) A situation where the ambient air pressure suddenly drops faster than the air in the lungs can escape, creating a risk of barotrauma to the lung tissue."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "explosive decompression"
}

Download raw JSONL data for explosive decompression meaning in All languages combined (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.