pressure per unit area
31vapor pressure — noun the pressure exerted by a vapor; often understood to mean saturated vapor pressure (the vapor pressure of a vapor in contact with its liquid form) (Freq. 10) • Syn: ↑vapour pressure • Hypernyms: ↑pressure, ↑pressure level, ↑force per unit… …
32corpuscular-radiation pressure — noun the minute pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a wave (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑radiation pressure • Hypernyms: ↑pressure, ↑pressure level, ↑force per unit area • Hyponyms: ↑ …
33sound pressure — noun the difference between the instantaneous pressure at a point in a sound field and the average pressure at that point • Syn: ↑instantaneous sound pressure • Hypernyms: ↑pressure, ↑pressure level, ↑force per unit area …
34intraocular pressure — noun pressure exerted by the fluids inside the eyeball; regulated by resistance to the outward flow of aqueous humor glaucoma can result from increased intraocular pressure • Syn: ↑IOP • Hypernyms: ↑pressure, ↑pressure level, ↑force per unit area …
35oil pressure — noun pressure that keeps oil on the moving parts of an internal combustion engine • Hypernyms: ↑pressure, ↑pressure level, ↑force per unit area …
36osmotic pressure — noun (physical chemistry) 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 (Freq. 3) • Topics: ↑physical chemistry • Hypernyms: ↑pressure,… …
37Static Pressure — The force per unit area acting on the surface of a solid boundary parallel to the flow …
38static pressure — noun : the force per unit area that is exerted by a fluid upon a surface at rest relative to the fluid …
39unit — 1. One; a single person or thing. 2. A standard of measure, weight, or any other quality, by multiplications or fractions of which a scale or system is formed. 3. A group of persons or things considered as a whole because of mutual activities or… …
40SI derived unit — The International System of Units (SI) specifies a set of seven base units from which all other units of measurement are formed, by products of the powers of base units. These other units are called SI derived units, for example, the SI derived… …
