Usually means: Seal preventing leaks between surfaces.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. gasket: Merriam-Webster
  2. gasket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gasket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gasket: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gasket: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gasket, gasket: Wordnik
  7. gasket: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gasket, Gasket: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. gasket: Wiktionary
  10. gasket: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. gasket: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. gasket: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Gasket, gasket: Dictionary.com
  14. gasket: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. gasket: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Gasket (disambiguation), Gasket (sailing), Gasket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Gasket: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. gasket: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. gasket: Rhymezone
  20. Gasket: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. gasket: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. gasket: FreeDictionary.org
  23. gasket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. gasket: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. gasket: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gasket: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gasket: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gasket: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gasket: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gasket: Urban Dictionary

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Gasket: Bottle Glossary
  3. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  4. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)
  5. GASKET: The Home Appliance Page
  6. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Gasket: Latitude Mexico
  10. GASKET: Power Engineering

(Note: See gaskets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (sailing) A length of rope or canvas band used for reefing a sail, or holding a stowed sail in place.
noun:  (mechanics) Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.
noun:  A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration.
noun:  Any of a wide variety of seals or packings used between matched machine parts or around pipe joints to prevent the escape of a gas or fluid.
verb:  To fit a gasket
verb:  To seal wth a gasket

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