Definition of "depressurization" []

• The act, or an instance, of depressurizing; a reduction of atmospheric pressure within a chamber or space vehicle etc. (noun)

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• "Mission ops lore (he flew before I had joined the ranks) recounted that he left the toilet running TWICE up in orbit, setting off the rapid cabin depressurization alarm in the middle of the crew's sleep shift."
• "Julie O'Donnell, an aviation safety spokeswoman for Seattle-based Boeing Commercial Airplanes, confirmed "a hole in the fuselage and a depressurization event" in the latest incident but declined to speculate on what caused the incident."
• "In some popular Airbus single-aisle jetliners with Rockwell Collins gear, computers already sense and react to cabin depressurization."