air compressor

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   a compressor that takes in air at atmospheric pressure and delivers it at a higher pressure

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Questions about air compressor

What does air compressor mean?

air compressor means "a compressor that takes in air at atmospheric pressure and delivers it at a higher pressure".

Is air compressor a common word?

air compressor 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.