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Definition of Pressure unit
1. Noun. A unit measuring force per unit area.
Specialized synonyms: Atm, Atmosphere, Standard Atmosphere, Standard Pressure, Pa, Pascal, Millimeter Of Mercury, Mm Hg, Torr, Pounds Per Square Inch, Psi, Millibar, Bar, Bar Absolute, Barye, Microbar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pressure Unit
Literary usage of Pressure unit
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 (1922)
"It has found that the high-pressure stage operating alone, without assistance
from the low-pressure unit, will produce a high vacuum. ..."
2. Blast-furnace Construction in America by Joseph Esrey Johnson (1917)
"Similarly, the low-pressure unit has a double source of steam supply, one the
receiver steam from the high pressure, the other, live steam throttled through ..."
3. Blast-furnace Construction in America by Joseph Esrey Johnson (1917)
"Similarly, the low-pressure unit has a double source of steam supply, one the
receiver steam from the high pressure, the other, live steam throttled through ..."
4. The Steam Engine and Turbine: A Text-book for Engineering Colleges by Robert Culbertson Hays Heck (1911)
"PRESSURE-UNIT RATIOS. To use this table, take the name of the first unit in the
column at the left and run along its line till the value in terms of the ..."
5. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"There was sufficient space in the present building to accommodate three 7500-kw.
units of the high-pressure type, or a low-pressure unit of the same size on ..."
6. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"Ibs.) So that whatever a heat unit does is equivalent to 3-3 times what is effected
by a pressure unit ; and a pressure unit will counteract the work done ..."
7. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1911)
"There was sufficient space in the present building to accommodate three 7500-kw.
units of the high-pressure type, or a low-pressure unit of the same size on ..."
8. Handbook of Casinghead Gas by Henry Palmer Westcott (1922)
"From the low pressure accumulator the gas passes out the top and returns to the
high pressure unit or cylinder, where it is compressed to higher pressure ..."
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