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Definition of pneumatic adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

pneumatic

adjective
 
/njuːˈmætɪk/
 
/nuːˈmætɪk/
[usually before noun]
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  1. filled with air
    • a pneumatic tyre
  2. worked by air under pressure
    • pneumatic tools
  3. Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French pneumatique or Latin pneumaticus, from Greek pneumatikos, from pneuma ‘wind’, from pnein ‘breathe’.
See pneumatic in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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