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PRESSURE UNIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A unit measuring force per unit area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("pressure unit" is a kind of...):
unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pressure unit"):
atm; atmosphere; standard atmosphere; standard pressure (a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade)
Pa; pascal (a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter)
millimeter of mercury; mm Hg; torr (a unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere; named after Torricelli)
pounds per square inch; psi (a unit of pressure)
millibar (a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar)
bar ((meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter)
bar absolute; barye; microbar (the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter)
