airshaft
See also: air shaft
English
Alternative forms
- air shaft, air-shaft
Etymology
air + shaft
Noun
airshaft (plural airshafts)
- (architecture) A vertical (or near vertical) opening (shaft) running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.
- Synonyms: air well, ventilation shaft, vent shaft, lightwell
- 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger
- Howard turned left and walked to the end of the building. Here was a narrow alleyway, which gave on the airshaft at the rear of the building.
- (mining) A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
- (manufacturing) A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as in continuous-process printing presses.
Translations
an opening facilitating air circulation
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Further reading
- lightwell on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- airshaft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia