WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
air′ pres′sure,
- Physicsthe force exerted by air, whether compressed or unconfined, on any surface in contact with it. Cf. atmospheric pressure.
- 1870–75
'air pressure' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Magdeburg hemisphere
- Pianola
- air
- air gauge
- airbrasive
- airlock
- altitude chamber
- aneroid barometer
- climate
- decompression sickness
- depressurize
- draft
- glottal stop
- hydropneumatization
- hypobaropathy
- millibar
- pressurize
- pressurized
- pumping
- slipstream
- spray gun
- telltale