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Definition of Pressure gage

1. Noun. Gauge for measuring and indicating fluid pressure.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pressure Gage

Literary usage of Pressure gage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Heat by Edward Marvin Shealy (1914)
"In engineering work two kinds of pressure are used, namely, gage pressure, which is the pressure indicated on an ordinary pressure gage, and absolute ..."

2. Heat by Edward Marvin Shealy (1914)
"In engineering work two kinds of pressure are used, namely, gage pressure, which is the pressure indicated on an ordinary pressure gage, and absolute ..."

3. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1907)
"pressure gage.—The pressure gage is intended to show the number of pounds per square inch of steam pressure there is on the boiler at any moment and to ..."

4. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1899)
"pressure gage.—The pressure gage is intended to show the number of pounds per square inch of steam pressure there is on the boiler at any moment and to ..."

5. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Pressure-gage. 1. (Steam-engine.) An ap paratus or attachment for indicating ... In the Magdeburg pressure-gage (C) the fluid is admitted by a tube to the ..."

6. Steam Boilers by Edward Marvin Shealy (1912)
"pressure gage.—It is absolutely necessary that the pressure gage should be trustworthy and if there is any reason to question its readings, ..."

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