airshaftとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• air shaft, air-shaft

語源

air +‎ shaft

名詞

airshaft (複数形 airshafts)

1. (architecture) A vertical (または near vertical) opening (shaft) running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.

   Synonyms: air well, ventilation shaft, vent shaft, lightwell

   • 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18:

     There was a warren of big cabins instead, many levels opening onto walkways around a common airshaft.

   • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:

     Howard turned left and walked to the end of the building. Here was a narrow alleyway, which gave on the airshaft at the rear of the building.

2. (mining) A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
3. (manufacturing) A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as in continuous-process printing presses.

Further reading

• lightwell on Wikipedia.
• airshaft on Wikipedia.

参照

• “air shaft” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.