ventilation
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3.6
- noun
- /ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃən/
:
ventilación
- As I highlighted previously, COVID is spread by airborne particles as well as droplets, so ventilation is key to reducing the risk of spread.
- ventilation system
- poor ventilation
- heating and ventilation
Vaccines are a choice, and we actually have proper education that ventilation and HEPA filtration helps prevent COVID.
- Vaccines are a choice, and we actually have proper education that ventilation and HEPA filtration helps prevent COVID.
- But if if you can try and do that outside or where there's plenty of ventilation and it's not too crowded.
- So you are saying this ventilation cost and, and the maintenance cost, they are like trade off, right?
- This one here you can cut a couple ventilation holes into the bottom of it like this because you don't want you want to cook your seedlings.
- And this, this sort of invisible shaft, the less complicated ventilation shaft that is, that's how they could have installed it.
Examples
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Therefore, an understanding of the ventilation system and operation is an essential step in all IAQ investigations.
Academic text (1997) -
In general, the workshops were confined, with poor ventilation and lighting.
Academic text (2012) -
Turn off the ventilation system.
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So we're learning rapidly about what are the best types of ventilation to use.
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Behind her is a sign that says "Emergency Ventilation" with a set of instructions.
Fiction book (1994) -
Cool air from the ventilation system fought a losing battle with so much body heat.
Fiction book (1999) -
This ventilation shaft connects to the forward hold.
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The windows couldn't open, so we postponed it until we could find a room with better ventilation.
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The new drug EDF had started flowing into the temple through the ventilation system.
Fiction book (2002) -
The ventilation system in the office helps keep the air fresh and comfortable.
Synonyms
14
3.4
A group of fans and ducts that brings fresh air into a building and removes stale air
1
3.9
A system that brings fresh air into a building and removes stale air
1
2.0
Allowing fresh air into a room or onto things to make them fresh
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
14
3.4
A group of fans and ducts that brings fresh air into a building and removes stale air
- Specialized
5
4.5
A passage in a building that lets fresh air in and stale air out
How Fresh
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ventilation comes from the Latin root vent- meaning 'wind' or 'blow', and you can see the same root in vent and ventilator. That's why building ventilation is about bringing fresh 'wind' (air) in and taking stale air out of a room.