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Definition of High-pressure
1. Adjective. Aggressively and persistently persuasive. "A high-pressure salesman"
Definition of High-pressure
1. Adjective. Operating with high pressures, such as several times atmospheric pressure but relative. ¹
2. Adjective. Tense, stressful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of High-pressure
1. 1. Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; said of steam, air, water, etc, and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc. 2. Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life. High-pressure engine, an engine in which steam at high pressure is used. It may be either a condensing or a noncondensing engine. Formerly the term was used only of the latter. See Steam engine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of High-pressure
Literary usage of High-pressure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1905)
"RALPH D. MERSHON:—In Mr. Moody's paper there is one point in regard to the
terminals for high-pressure transformers with which the speaker thoroughly agrees ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"At first high pressure lamps were designed to use the upright mantle, ...
Inverted mantles for high pressure units are applied to the burners ir a soft ..."
3. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"The vertical engine (see fig. of sectional elevation) has two high-pressure
cylinders, B and C, into which the charges of gas ..."
4. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"The high-pressure belts. The explanation of the high pressure in low latitudes
rather than in high, and the explanation of the highest pressures just ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In some cases, instead of the high-pressure feeders starting from omnibus ...
A number of high-pressure feeders are carried from the main switchboard to ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"This Company use the high pressure alternating system at 2000 volts pressure,
and in the case of this hotel the transformers were installed upon the ..."
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