gasket

English

rubber gasket (seal)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæs.kɪt/

• Audio (US):

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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)
• Catalan: juntura (ca) f, junta (ca) f
• 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)
• Hungarian: tömítés (hu)
• 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

Further reading

• gasket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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