dead-air space

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   an unventilated area where no air circulates

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Questions about dead-air space

What does dead-air space mean?

dead-air space means "an unventilated area where no air circulates".

Is dead-air space a common word?

dead-air space 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.