hermetically sealed

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English

Etymology

See hermetic

Verb

hermetically sealed

  1. simple past and past participle of hermetically seal

Adjective

hermetically sealed

  1. Sealed with an airtight hermetic seal.
    • 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine:
      Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.

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