aerosol container

1. 1.

   a dispenser that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray (usually by means of a propellant gas)

   Synonymsaerosolaerosol canaerosol bombspray can

   Broaderdispenser

   Narrowerpepper spray

Questions about aerosol container

What does aerosol container mean?

aerosol container means "a dispenser that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray (usually by means of a propellant gas)".

What is another word for aerosol container?

Close synonyms include aerosol, aerosol can, aerosol bomb, spray can. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aerosol container a common word?

aerosol container is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.