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Definition of Atmospheric pressure
1. Noun. The pressure exerted by the atmosphere.
Generic synonyms: Gas Pressure
Specialized synonyms: Barometric Pressure, Compartment Pressure, Overpressure, Sea-level Pressure
Definition of Atmospheric pressure
1. Noun. (physics meteorology) The pressure caused by the weight of the atmosphere above an area. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Atmospheric pressure
1. The pressure at any point in an atmosphere due solely to the weight of the atmospheric gases above the point concerned. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atmospheric Pressure
Literary usage of Atmospheric pressure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"If the duct v with one part of water and eleven pai the water and air together
should be s by the atmospheric pressure at the 1 height of about 403 feet. ..."
2. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johannes Justus Rein (1884)
"Considering the prevailing dependency of atmospheric pressure upon temperature
... As with heat, so also with atmospheric pressure, the yearly variations in ..."
3. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"atmospheric pressure. Growth under decreased or increased atmospheric pressure.
... atmospheric pressure on high mountains. 2. The Air contained in Water. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"But this pressure is clearly the sum of the atmospheric pressure and the ...
For that position the confined air ы at the atmospheric pressure ; and for any ..."
5. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"Increased atmospheric pressure.—While man is often exposed to rarefied air, ...
The increase in atmospheric pressure in the deepest mines has little ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1871)
"V. " On a New Instrument for recording Minute Variations of atmospheric pressure.
... one of which is open and exposed to atmospheric pressure, the other ..."
7. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1919)
"CHAPTER XVI atmospheric pressure THAT the air is substantial and has weight is
... Differences in atmospheric pressure are the primary cause of atmospheric ..."
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