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COMPARTMENT PRESSURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compartment pressure mean?
• COMPARTMENT PRESSURE (noun)
The noun COMPARTMENT PRESSURE has 1 sense:
1. the air pressure maintained in an air-tight compartment (as in an aircraft)
Familiarity information: COMPARTMENT PRESSURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The air pressure maintained in an air-tight compartment (as in an aircraft)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("compartment pressure" is a kind of...):
air pressure; atmospheric pressure; pressure (the pressure exerted by the atmosphere)
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