hermetic
adjective
made airtight by fusion or sealing.
hermetical
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a variation of
hermetic.
Example Sentences
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But listing names of alleged abusers from such a closed, hermetical country was a valuable – and difficult – exercise, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2016
The nuts are screwed up tight, and the flange of the door, compressing the rubber lining, renders the joint hermetical.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various
These are his great merits, against which must be placed a flood of hermetical and transcendental medicine, some his own, some foisted in his name, the influence of which is still with us.
From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William
The closing is made hermetical by means of an India rubber tube, K, which presses against the glass and the cover.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various
His measure of usefulness became full in 1798 when the hermetical seal of death closed his bright career.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll
