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Definition of "safety device" [safety device]

  • A device designed to prevent injury or accidents (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "safety device" in a sentence
  • ""When a spaceship goes down to the Jovian surface, it's a radio-controlled job; it leaks like a sieve, to equalize pressure, but other­wise it's the sturdiest, most utterly powerful model ever designed; it's loaded with every instrument, every servomechanism, every safety device the human mind has yet thought up to protect a million-dollar hunk of precision equipment."