antishock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That counteracts or reduces shock, or its effects.
Example Sentences
- "Here the shock is associated with the wavelike property of a system, while the antishock is a consequence of a tendency toward instability."
- "Only normal shocks are generated directly from continuous initial conditions. Solutions containing antishocks exist following discontinuous initial conditions such as those used in shock tubes and those that arise from a collision of two normal shocks, ..."
- "For unconditioned dynamics antishocks are unstable and dissolve into a rarefaction wave."
- "With the M 4 system, superior antishock is available from one end of the adjustment range to the other because higher or lower setttings are achieved through changes in leverage rather than by increasing or decreasing the pre-load."
- "...with 60-second antishock is its best-seller, taking up more than 70 percent of total output."
- "We could now skip tracks, get digital sound, batteries lasted longer, and the device was far thinner; skipping, however, remained an issue until antishock was developed."