compressed gas

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   gas at a high pressure that can be used as a propellant

   Broadergaspropellant

   Narrowercompressed air

Questions about compressed gas

What does compressed gas mean?

compressed gas means "gas at a high pressure that can be used as a propellant".

Is compressed gas a common word?

compressed gas 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.