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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly;
[syn: air pocket, pocket, air hole]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Air hole \Air" hole`\ ([^a]r" h[=o]l`). 1. A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over. [1913 Webster] 2. (Founding) A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole. [1913 Webster] 3. (A["e]ronautics) A local region in the atmosphere having a downward movement and offering less than normal support for the sustaining surfaces of a flying machine, causing an airplane to drop suddenly. Same as air pocket. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Air pocket \Air" pock"et\ (p[o^]k"[e^]t). (aeronautics) A local region in the atmosphere having a downward movement and offering less than normal support for the sustaining surfaces of a flying machine, causing an airplane to drop suddenly. Same as air hole. [PJC.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

air pocket n 1: a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly [syn: air pocket, pocket, air hole]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "air pocket": CAT, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, airspace, bump, ceiling, crosswind, empty space, favorable wind, fog, front, head wind, high-pressure area, hole, ionosphere, jetstream, low-pressure area, overcast, pocket, roughness, soup, space, stratosphere, substratosphere, tail wind, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, visibility, visibility zero