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HERMETICALLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hermetically mean?
• HERMETICALLY (adverb)
The adverb HERMETICALLY has 1 sense:
1. in an airtight manner
Familiarity information: HERMETICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an airtight manner
Context example:
this bag is hermetically sealed
Pertainym:
hermetic (completely sealed; completely airtight)
Context examples
A container capable of being hermetically sealed, intended to hold sterile materials.
(Ampule, NCI Thesaurus)
All the broad and spacious corridors of his mind were closed and hermetically sealed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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