pressure suit

Meaning

Noun

• A sealed, full-body garment, usually with an attachable helmet, which maintains air pressure or mechanical pressure around the body of an astronaut or aviator to compensate for the low density of the air at high altitudes.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• space suit

Broader meaning words

• protective suit, suit

Origin

• and in their 1928 novel The Skylark of Space, first serialized in Amazing Stories.