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Synonyms for pressure

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for pressure

the act, condition, or effect of exerting force on someone or something

power used to overcome resistance

to cause (a person or thing) to act or move in spite of resistance

to maintain normal air pressure in

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Synonyms for pressure

a force that compels

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the act of pressing

the state of demanding notice or attention

the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin

an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress

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to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

exert pressure on someone through threats

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Predicted driving pressure and maximum velocity in the capillary die for various rheological models.
The driving pressure of the natural ventilation system is on the order of 0.04 inches [H.sub.2]O (10 Pa).
The water heating plays most dominant role in case of droplet sizes, no matter what was the driving pressure, nozzle diameter, and measuring position.
The minimum driving pressure [p.sub.min]--when neglecting the friction and the losses--should be:
The driving pressure for coronary blood flow is the aortic root pressure minus the intraventricular pressure for the respective ventricle.
During the MEK run, operators had maintained approximately 55 PSIG driving pressure and 30 PSIG backpressure on the pig.
Keywords: bubble formation, micro-hole, driving pressure difference, detached bubble volume
where R and L are the die radius and die length, [DELTA]P is the driving pressure, and q is the volumetric flow rate.
Driving pressure from society demands that companies account for their behaviour and reconsider their role in different ways.
However, unless PEEP is used with it (thereby limiting the exhalation driving pressure for airflow and ventilation efficiency), APRV does not assure that such closure of lung units does not occur.
And the German king of survival admitted his Cottagers were not under the same driving pressure to avoid the drop as "small-town" clubs, such as Norwich and Sunderland.
The low driving pressure increases the relative contribution of capillary action to the flowrate.
Figure 1 is a plot of the driving pressure, [P.sub.d], as a function of the L/D ratio for several values of the apparent shear rate, [Mathematical Expression Omitted], where Q is the volumetric flow rate, and R is the capillary radius.