Usually means: Force exerted per unit area.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pressure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pressure: Merriam-Webster
  3. pressure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pressure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pressure: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pressure: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pressure, pressure: Wordnik
  8. pressure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pressure: Wiktionary
  10. pressure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pressure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pressure: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pressure: Dictionary.com
  14. pressure (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pressure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Pressure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pressure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pressure: Rhymezone
  20. pressure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pressure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pressure: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pressure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pressure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. pressure: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Pressure (physics), pressure: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pressure (physics), pressure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pressure: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pressure: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Pressure (physics), pressure: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressure: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pressure: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Pressure: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. pressure: UNCChem Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressure: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pressure: Backgammon
  2. Pressure: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  6. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  9. PRESSURE: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
noun:  A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
noun:  Distress.
noun:  Urgency
noun:  (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
noun:  (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
verb:  (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

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