gasket

gasket

English

rubber gasket (seal)

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle French garcette (“gasket”), from Old French garce (“young woman”), feminization of garçon.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæs.kɪt/

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Noun

gasket (plural gaskets)

1. (sailing) A length of rope or canvas band used for reefing a sail, or holding a stowed sail in place.
2. (mechanics) Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.
   • 1985, Ron Sessions, The Turbo Hydra-Matic 350 Handbook, Penguin, →ISBN, page 12:

     Three major types of oil-pan gaskets are available: cork/ neoprene composition, neoprene and Hypalon Duraprene. Most professionals prefer cork/neoprene gaskets because the oil-pan bolts seem to lose their torque with the others.

3. A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration.
4. Any of a wide variety of seals or packings used between matched machine parts or around pipe joints to prevent the escape of a gas or fluid.

Derived terms

• Apollonian gasket
• blow a gasket, bust a gasket
• harbor gasket
• Sierpinski gasket

 

Translations

short sailing rope

French: garcette (fr) f German: Zeising m Spanish: tomador (es) m, aferravelas m, piníceo m, pinillo m

mechanical seal

Arabic: حَشِيَّة‎ f (ḥašiyya) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: уплътнение (bg) n (uplǎtnenie), набивка (bg) f (nabivka) Chinese: Mandarin: 墊片／垫片 (zh) (diànpiàn), 膠圈／胶圈 (zh) (jiāoquān) Czech: těsnění (cs) n Dutch: pakking (nl) f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: tiiviste (fi) French: joint (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Dichtung (de) f Greek: τσιμούχα (el) f (tsimoúcha) Icelandic: pakkning f, þétti n Irish: ribín seoil m Italian: guarnizione (it) f Japanese: ガスケット (gasuketto) Kazakh: нығыздағыш (nyğyzdağyş) Khmer: ទ្រនាប់ (km) (trɔnoap) Korean: 개스켓 (gaeseuket), 개스킷 (gaeseukit) Latvian: blīve f Macedonian: заптивка f pl (zaptivka) Norwegian: pakning m Plautdietsch: Gaskett n Polish: uszczelka f Portuguese: gaxeta f Russian: прокла́дка (ru) f (prokládka), уплотни́тельное устро́йство n (uplotnítelʹnoje ustrójstvo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бр̏тва f Roman: bȑtva (sh) f Spanish: empaquetadura f, junta (es) f Swedish: packning (sv) f Tagalog: sapin Thai: ปะเก็น Turkish: conta (tr) Welsh: gasged

Verb

gasket (third-person singular simple present gaskets, present participle gasketing, simple past and past participle gasketed)

1. To fit a gasket
2. To seal wth a gasket

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “gasket”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

• gasket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈkasːkeh(t)/

Verb

gasket

1. inflection of gaskit:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular past indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative