ambient pressure

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Noun[edit]

ambient pressure (countable and uncountable, plural ambient pressures)

  1. (sciences) Pressure of the surrounding medium on an object, such as a gas or liquid, which comes into contact with the object.

References[edit]

  • McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms (2003) “ambient pressure”, in Answers.com‎[1], McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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