MEANING
A shaped piece of material fitted between adjoining surfaces to help prevent leakage.
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- a gasket seal
- replace a gasket
- a compressed gasket
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The gasket had hardened until it no longer sealed the pressure joint.
A narrow leak appeared where the replacement gasket met the uneven flange.
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- gasket
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular gasket; plural gaskets. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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