antishock

English

Alternative forms

• anti-shock

Etymology

anti- +‎ shock

Adjective

antishock (not comparable)

1. That counteracts or reduces shock, or its effects.

Translations

that counteracts or reduces shock

• Portuguese: antichoque

Noun

antishock (countable and uncountable, plural antishocks)

1. (countable) A shock wave that gains energy when fluid flows through the shock front.
   • 1962, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics, Quarterly Progress Report - Volumes 64-65, page 153:

     Here the shock is associated with the wavelike property of a system, while the antishock is a consequence of a tendency toward instability.

   • 1978, Collective Phenomena - Volume 3, page 10:

     Only normal shocks are generated directly from continuous initial conditions. Solutions containing antishocks exist following discontinuous initial conditions such as those used in shock tubes and those that arise from a collision of two normal shocks, ...

   • 2014, C Bernardin, P Gonçalves, From Particle Systems to Partial Differential Equations, page 114:

     For unconditioned dynamics antishocks are unstable and dissolve into a rarefaction wave.

2. (uncountable) A cushioning system for counteracting shock.
   • 1976 February, Carl Ettlinger, “Bindings Performance Report: The Marker M Line”, in Skiing, volume 28, number 6, page 89:

     With the M 4 system, superior antishock is available from one end of the adjustment range to the other because higher or lower setttings are achieved through changes in leverage rather than by increasing or decreasing the pre-load.

   • 2005, Asian Sources Electronics - Issue 4; Issue 6:

     ...with 60-second antishock is its best-seller, taking up more than 70 percent of total output.

   • 2018, Wiemer Snijders, Eat Your Greens, →ISBN, page 288:

     We could now skip tracks, get digital sound, batteries lasted longer, and the device was far thinner; skipping, however, remained an issue until antishock was developed.

3. (countable, uncountable) A drug that works to counter the effects of physical shock.
   • 2013, Philip Jose Farmer, The Unreasoning Mask, →ISBN:

     We all need some antishock, Doctor.

   • 2014, Neal Asher, The Complete Owner Trilogy, →ISBN:

     Shortly a drawer emerged, holding three loaded syringes: one containing a counteragent for his anaesthetic, the second a mix of sugars, antishocks, viral and bacterial applications, the third a wide-spectrum stimulant package.