Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - hermetic
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1. If a container has a hermetic seal, the seal is very tight so that no air can get in or out. (TECHNICAL) = airtight ADJ: ADJ n • hermetically The batteries are designed to be leak-proof and hermetically sealed. ADV: ADV -ed, ADV after v 2. You use hermetic to describe something which you disapprove of because it seems to be totally separate from other people and things in society. (WRITTEN) Its film industry operates in its own curiously hermetic way... Their work is more cosily hermetic than ever. ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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also ~al adjective Etymology: Medieval Latin ~us, from Hermet-, Hermes Trismegistus Date: 1605 1. often capitalized a. of or relating to the Gnostic writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries A.D. and attributed to Hermes Trismegistus b. relating to or characterized by occultism or abstruseness ; recondite 2. from the belief that Hermes Trismegistus invented a magic seal to keep vessels airtight a. airtight ~ seal b. impervious to external influence trapped inside the ~ military machine — Jack Newfield c. recluse, solitary leads a ~ life • ~ally adverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. (also hermetical) 1 with an airtight closure. 2 protected from outside agencies. 3 a of alchemy or other occult sciences (hermetic art). b esoteric. Phrases and idioms hermetic seal an airtight seal (orig. as used by alchemists). Derivatives hermetically adv. hermetism n. Etymology: mod.L hermeticus irreg. f. Hermes Trismegistus thrice-greatest Hermes (as the founder of alchemy) HERMIT n. 1 an early Christian recluse. 2 any person living in solitude. Phrases and idioms hermit-crab any crab of the family Paguridae that lives in a cast-off mollusc shell for protection. hermit thrush a migratory N. American thrush, Catharus guttatus. Derivatives hermitic adj. Etymology: ME f. OF (h)ermite or f. LL eremita f. Gk eremites f. eremia desert f. eremos solitary ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. алхимик 2. (Н.) относящийся к Гермесу 3. магический 4. относящийся к алхимии hermetic art (philosophy, science) —- алхимия 5. герметический; плотно закрытый hermetic seal (sealing) —- герметическая запайка (сосуда); мед. плотная повязка (на ране) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1605, from Gk. Hermes, god of science and art, among other things, identified by Neoplatonists, mystics, and alchemists with the Egyptian god Thoth as Hermes Trismegistos "Thrice-Great Hermes," who supposedly invented the process of making a glass tube airtight (a process in alchemy) using a secret seal. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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