AIRBORNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does airborne mean? 

• AIRBORNE (adjective)
  The adjective AIRBORNE has 1 sense:

1. moved or conveyed by or through air

  Familiarity information: AIRBORNE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIRBORNE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moved or conveyed by or through air

Similar:

mobile (moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place))

 Context examples 

Airborne exposure to this chemical can cause eyes, nose, throat, and lung irritation.

(Crotonaldehyde, NCI Thesaurus)

Exposure to airborne asbestos particles increases one's risk of developing malignant mesothelioma.

(Malignant mesothelioma, NCI Dictionary)

Strong winds over the Channel presented difficulty during the crossing, Zapata said, adding it required much endurance to manage to stay airborne.

(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)

This system protects the respiratory surface from dirt and airborne infection and represents the principal mechanism of defense in the respiratory tract.

(Ciliated Bronchial Epithelial Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Instead, scientists use satellite or airborne instrument data to observe features that change as a glacier melts, such as its flow speed and surface height.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)

An airborne electromagnetic (AEM) sensor, called SkyTEM, mounted to the helicopter, allowed the team to discover that brines—salty water—form extensive aquifers below glaciers, lakes and within permanently frozen soils.

(Discovered deep under Antarctic surface: Extensive, salty aquifer and potentially vast microbial habitat, NSF)

Airborne Particulate Matter is a broad class of materials and substances of minute size present in the air that originate from industrial manufacturing processes, automobile exhaust, forest fires, and fossil fuel combustion.

(Airborne Particulate Matter, NCI Thesaurus)

The bubble forces the water surface itself to vibrate, acting like a piston to drive the airborne sound.

(What causes the sound of a dripping tap – and how do you stop it?, University of Cambridge)

RNA viruses; enters host by fusion of the viral envelope with the cell surface membrane; transmission is horizontal, mainly airborne.

(Paramyxoviridae, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

When airborne dust heats up, it creates updrafts that carry gases along with it, including the small quantity of water vapor sometimes seen as wispy clouds on Mars.

(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)