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Definition of Pounds per square inch
1. Noun. A unit of pressure.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pounds Per Square Inch
Literary usage of Pounds per square inch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"... Where pressure is not over ten pounds per square inch the time of decompression
shall be one minute; when pressure is over ten pounds per square inch, ..."
2. Strength of Materials by Arthur Morley (1916)
"(3) looo pounds per square inch; in pounds per square inch; 3120 pounds per square
... (2) 7922 pounds per square inch tension; 22660 pounds per square inch ..."
3. Strength of Materials by Arthur Morley (1913)
"(n) 4423 pounds per square inch. (13) 30 X to» and n-8 X 10° pounds per square
... (2) 7922 pounds per square inch tension; 22660 pounds per square inch ..."
4. Materials of Construction: Their Manufacture and Properties by Adelbert Philo Mills (1922)
"49 the ultimate strength falls at 35500 pounds per square inch for the hard ...
At 5000 pounds per square inch stress, the values of E have decreased to ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Slaughter-houses require about 25° F. in their storage-rooms, which must be
obtained by a pressure of about 22 pounds per square inch in the cooler. ..."
6. Strength of Materials by James Ellsworth Boyd (1917)
"The unit compression along the Y axis due to the load of 6000 pounds per square
inch is 0.00020, which with Poisson's ratio equal to ^4 makes an additional ..."
7. Strength of Materials by James Ellsworth Boyd (1911)
"Ans. 1400000 pounds per square inch. 3. A steel bar 1 inch by 5 inches is elongated
0.024 inch in a length of 5 feet by a certain load. ..."
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