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Definition of Pressure cooker
1. Noun. Autoclave for cooking at temperatures above the boiling point of water.
Definition of Pressure cooker
1. Noun. (cookware) A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pressure Cooker
Literary usage of Pressure cooker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Military Ethics: Reflections on Principles-The Profession of Arms, Military edited by Malham M. Wakin (1994)
"My subtitle—The Role of the pressure cooker—projects an angle of vision that is
scarely less universal. Though it subtends a very personal arc, ..."
2. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1921)
"An article by Grace Gordon Hood in the JOURNAL, August-September, 1915, contrasts
the pressure cooker with the fireless cooker, and brings out some of the ..."
3. Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot by James B. Stockdale (1995)
"THE ROLE OF THE pressure cooker Lecture delivered at the University of Texas at
Dallas in November 1980. CHANCELLOR ANDREW R. CECIL'S expressed wish is to ..."
4. Laboratory Projects in Physics: A Manual of Practical Experiments for Beginners by Frederick F. Good (1920)
"Adjust the angle of incidence so that part of this ray is reflected and part
refracted. 53. THE pressure cooker To study the operation of a pressure cooker. ..."
5. The Edison Monthly by New York Edison Company (1922)
"The pressure cooker ONLY comparatively recent is the adaptation of electricity
to the household pressure cooker as a heating agent. ..."
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