pressure
IPA: prˈɛʃɝ
noun
- A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
- A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
- Distress.
- Urgency
- (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
- (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
verb
- (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
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Examples of "pressure" in Sentences
- The pressure vessel holds the pyrotechnic material.
- Portal venous pressure is the blood pressure in the portal vein.
- Expansion of the steam under water pressure causes the implosion.
- Also it influences the blood pressure and the heartbeat and so on.
- In operation, the concavity forms a water bearing pressure pocket.
- Rise in blood pressure Increased excitability in some spinal reflexes.
- Blood pressure refers to the force of the blood against arterial walls.
- One is temperature and the other is the ambient vapor pressure of water.
- The diastolic pressure creates a disordered flow of blood into the heart.
- Pressure is maintained in the well sufficiently high to hold the overburden.