COMPRESSED GAS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Gas at a high pressure that can be used as a propellant

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("compressed gas" is a kind of...):

propellant; propellent (any substance that propels)

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compressed gas"):

compressed air (air at a pressure greater than that of the atmosphere)

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