air pocket

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   a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly

   Synonymspocketair hole

   Broaderatmospheric phenomenon

Questions about air pocket

What does air pocket mean?

air pocket means "a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly".

What is another word for air pocket?

Close synonyms include pocket, air hole. 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 air pocket a common word?

air pocket 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.