air spring

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   a mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion

   Synonymsair cushion

   Broadershock absorber

Questions about air spring

What does air spring mean?

air spring means "a mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion".

What is another word for air spring?

Close synonyms include air cushion. 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 spring a common word?

air spring 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.