PRESSURE UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pressure unit mean? 

• PRESSURE UNIT (noun)
  The noun PRESSURE UNIT has 1 sense:

1. a unit measuring force per unit area

  Familiarity information: PRESSURE UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESSURE UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit measuring force per unit area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("pressure unit" is a kind of...):

unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pressure unit"):

atm; atmosphere; standard atmosphere; standard pressure (a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade)

Pa; pascal (a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter)

millimeter of mercury; mm Hg; torr (a unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere; named after Torricelli)

pounds per square inch; psi (a unit of pressure)

millibar (a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar)

bar ((meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter)

bar absolute; barye; microbar (the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter)