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BLOWING GAS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blowing gas mean?
• BLOWING GAS (noun)
The noun BLOWING GAS has 1 sense:
1. the gas leaving a generator during a blow period
Familiarity information: BLOWING GAS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The gas leaving a generator during a blow period
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
blow gas; blowing gas
Hypernyms ("blowing gas" is a kind of...):
gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)
Context examples
Besides being a classic example of a starburst galaxy, because it is forming an extraordinary number of new stars compared with most other galaxies, M82 also has strong winds blowing gas and dust into intergalactic space.
(Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies, NASA)
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