deflated

Definitions

1. 1

   Empty of all the air or gas that was or could be inside.

   • While, of course it is not advisable to run on a deflated tire, tests have been made which showed that this type of tire was not damaged after it was running several miles.
   • Except for turnings with a deflated rear tire as an outerside tire, difference in the performance is small between fixed control and manual control.
   • The very deflated basketball in part c has no bounce at all, and a maxiumu amount of kinetic energy is lost during the completely inelastic collision.
2. 2

   Disappointed

   Disappointed; depressed, especially after having been hopeful or in high spirits.

   • I sat down in the lounge at K.G. very deflated and also concerned.
   • Our self-esteem is so low, our healthy ego so deflated, that we can't imagine having a life that is truly free.
   • Hurt and disappointment are very deflated states to be in, with little energy to them.
3. 3

   Reduced or lowered.

   • Instead, a terrific escalation of corporate rivalries was combined with a deflated power medium and an exceedingly inflated influence medium, particularly in the area of purely technical expertise.
   • A dead person's tissue depths are a little more deflated than in life however, and as these were relatively small samples that took little account of human diversity markers, reconstruction techniques were no more than loose guidelines.
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   1. 4

      Adjusted downward to compensate for inflation.

      • In general, the output measure used in calculating these indexes is based on a deflated value concept and is developed in the following way:
      • Output indexes are developed as a deflated value of production or physical quantity of production of an industry.
   2. 5

      Suffering from deflation.

      • The result is striking: durables unfilled orders fell almost continuously from the beginning of 1947 until the end of the recession, and there was only a submerged second cycle in the deflated purchased-materials investment series.
      • I am not talking about a deflated economy.
      • Secondly, the cyclical expansion now taking shape in the United States is starting from a relatively high level; it has much less headroom than earlier expansions that began from a deeply deflated recession base.
   3. 6

      Subsided or compressed downward.

      • A deflated hearth, about 5 m² in area, lay on the northernmost section of the surface concentration.
      • Located on a deflated sandy surface 100m east of Azariq I, this was apparently a small 40 m2, transitional Kebaran/Geometric Kebaran occupation which was largely destroyed by tracked vehicles following discovery.
      • If more than one archaeological horizon was present in the dune prior to deflation, the artifacts from each horizon become mixed on the deflated surface.
   4. 7

      simple past and past participle of deflate

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