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corridor
[kawr-i-der, -dawr, kor-]
noun
a gallery or passage connecting parts of a building; hallway.
a passage into which several rooms or apartments open.
a passageway in a passenger ship or railroad car permitting access to separate cabins or compartments.
a narrow tract of land forming a passageway, as one connecting two major cities or one belonging to an inland country and affording an outlet to the sea.
the Polish Corridor.
a usually densely populated region characterized by one or more well-traveled routes used by railroad, airline, or other carriers.
The Northeast corridor extends from Washington, D.C., to Boston.
Also called air corridor.ĢżAeronautics.Ģża restricted path along which an aircraft must travel to avoid hostile action, other air traffic, etc.
Aerospace.Ģża carefully calculated path through the atmosphere along which a space vehicle must travel after launch or during reentry in order to attain a desired orbit, to avoid severe acceleration and deceleration, or to minimize aerodynamic heating.
corridor
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noun
a hallway or passage connecting parts of a building
a strip of land or airspace along the route of a road or river
the M1 corridor
a strip of land or airspace that affords access, either from a landlocked country to the sea (such as the Polish corridor , 1919-39, which divided Germany) or from a state to an exclave (such as the Berlin corridor , 1945ā90, which passed through the former East Germany)
a passageway connecting the compartments of a railway coach
the higher echelons of government, the Civil Service, etc, considered as the location of power and influence
a flight path that affords safe access for intruding aircraft
the path that a spacecraft must follow when re-entering the atmosphere, above which lift is insufficient and below which heating effects are excessive
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- corridored adjective
- precorridor noun
- uncorridored adjective
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of corridor1
Example Sentences
The hot and dry weather will bring āelevated fire conditionsā away from the coast through Wednesday, particularly for the Antelope Valley and along the Interstate 5 corridor in north L.A.
The hot and dry weather will also bring āelevated fire conditionsā away from the coast through Wednesday, particularly for the Antelope Valley, along the Interstate 5 corridor in north L.A.
Mobile patients could wander the hospitalās corridors, or fall and injure themselves.
Inside, in a corridor, two women emerge from an office.
Not even now, more than 10 hours later, as the clock strikes three in the morning and he paces the sterile corridors of the hospital where their bodies lie, refusing to sit, refusing to accept.
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