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Hermetic

adjective
1.
Completely sealed; completely airtight.





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"Hermetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... of that journey are the reverse of roseate. The atmosphere of the cars—windows hermetic, and stoves red-hot—made one look back regretfully on the milder inferno of the passage-boat; the acrid apple-odor was more pungently nauseating; and the abomination of expectoration less carefully dissembled. ...
— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence
... about the defense of the Han authorities, who considered nothing but the good of the community as a whole; for when they established these quarantines, they did not hesitate to seal up thousands of the city's inhabitants behind hermetic barriers enclosing entire sections of different levels, where deprived of food and ventilation, the wretched inhabitants died miserably, long before the disease germs developed in ...
— The Airlords of Han • Philip Francis Nowlan


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