Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
inflater .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
inflater .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an air pump operated by hand to inflate something (as a tire)
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Examples
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The Hövding's puffy collar contains a nylon airbag with a gas inflator, which is triggered by sensors upon collision.
Hövding: Invisible Bike Helmet Inflates On Impact (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The Hövding's puffy collar contains a nylon airbag with a gas inflator, which is triggered by sensors upon collision.
Hövding: Invisible Bike Helmet Inflates On Impact (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Real growth without the import price "inflator" was a decline of 1.3%.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: President-Elect Obama: How You Can Fix the Economy 2008
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Players' Association agrees to activate a 5 percent "inflator" clause, as it has consistently done.
NYT > Home Page By JEFF Z. KLEIN 2010
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Real growth without the import price "inflator" was a decline of 1. 3\%.
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Use a worm inflator to keep it off the bottom and in the fish faces.
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Ultimately, were the Congress to adopt a plan which encouraged people to opt into the plus accounts (by reducing benefits by changing to CPI inflator or by raising the age some more or some other combination of changes) then the deal might be a good one.
Social Security Incrementalism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Like some other GM cars, a compact spare tire is a $100 option on both of our Cruzes; otherwise you get tire sealant and an inflator kit.
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Use a worm inflator to keep it off the bottom and in the fish faces.
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Honda says, “… we cannot be completely certain that the driver's airbag inflator in the vehicles being added to this recall at this time will perform as designed.”
alexz commented on the word inflator
in cycling, it's a tool which used a CO2 cartridge to fill a tire instead of manual pumping of air.
January 12, 2013
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