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pressure, pressure level, force per unit area (noun)
the force applied to a unit area of surface
"the compressed gas exerts an increased pressure"
Hypernyms
- physical phenomenon
a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy
- physical phenomenon
Derivationally Related Forms
- press
exert pressure or force to or upon - supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
increase the pressure on a gas or liquid - pressurize, pressurise
maintain a certain pressure - pressurize, pressurise
increase the pressure in or of - supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
increase the pressure on a gas or liquid - pressurize, pressurise
maintain a certain pressure - pressurize, pressurise
increase the pressure in or of
- press
Related To
- blood pressure
the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels - gas pressure
the pressure exerted by a gas - head
the pressure exerted by a fluid - hydrostatic head
the pressure at a given point in a liquid measured in terms of the vertical height of a column of the liquid needed to produce the same pressure - intraocular pressure, IOP
pressure exerted by the fluids inside the eyeball - oil pressure
pressure that keeps oil on the moving parts of an internal-combustion engine - osmotic pressure
the pressure exerted by a solution necessary to prevent osmosis into that solution when it is separated from the pure solvent by a semipermeable membrane - radiation pressure, corpuscular-radiation-pressure
the minute pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a wave - sound pressure, instantaneous sound pressure
the difference between the instantaneous pressure at a point in a sound field and the average pressure at that point - suction
a force over an area produced by a pressure difference - vapor pressure, vapour pressure
the pressure exerted by a vapor
- blood pressure
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