A tight-fitting or tightly-wrapped bandage for reducing swelling or blood loss from a wound by applying pressure to the injury.

(physical chemistry) The hydrostatic pressure exerted by a solution across a semipermeable membrane from a pure solvent; the pressure needed to counteract osmosis.

plural of bursting pressure

plural of intraocular pressure

(physiology) The fluid pressure inside the eye.

(electricity) voltage

plural of pressure bomb

A type of pressure chamber used to build up and hold extreme pressures, pressurizing samples with high-pressure fluids.

(physics, meteorology) Synonym of gauge pressure

(aviation) A measure of altitude inferred by the measurement of ambient pressure in differential with a reference pressure at a known altitude.