PRESSURE UNIT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)