entry pressure
1pressure-cooker — adj, always used before a noun the pressure cooker [=high pressure] atmosphere of law school • • • Main Entry: ↑pressure cooker …
2pressure helmet — noun An airman s helmet for use with a pressure suit • • • Main Entry: ↑pressure …
3pressure therapy — noun The therapeutic use of pressure points • • • Main Entry: ↑pressure …
4pressure-tube reactor — noun A nuclear reactor in which the fuel elements are contained in many separate tubes rather than in a single pressure vessel • • • Main Entry: ↑pressure …
5pressure waistcoat — noun A waistcoat worn by aircraft crew through which oxygen passes under pressure to the lungs to aid breathing at high altitudes • • • Main Entry: ↑pressure …
6pressure gradient — noun : the space rate of variation of pressure in a given direction; specifically : such rate of variation in a direction normal to an isobar * * * Meteorol. the change in atmospheric pressure per unit of horizontal distance in the direction in… …
7pressure ridge — noun : a ridge produced on floating ice by buckling or crushing under lateral pressure of wind or tide or on a congealing lava flow by the continued movement of its liquid interior * * * 1. a ridge produced on floating ice by buckling or crushing …
8pressure-cook — verb cook in a pressure cooker • Topics: ↑cooking, ↑cookery, ↑preparation • Hypernyms: ↑cook • Verb Frames: Somebody s Somebody s something …
9pressure altitude — noun : the altitude corresponding to a given pressure in a standard atmosphere * * * Meteorol. the altitude for a given pressure in a standard atmosphere, such as that registered by a pressure altimeter. * * * pressure altitude noun (aeronautics) …
10pressure cabin — noun cabin consisting of the pressurized section of an aircraft or spacecraft • Hypernyms: ↑cabin * * * noun : an airplane cabin in which near normal atmospheric pressure can be maintained by a supercharger during high altitude flight * * * Aeron …
