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LOW-PRESSURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does low-pressure mean?
• LOW-PRESSURE (adjective)
The adjective LOW-PRESSURE has 1 sense:
1. not forceful
Familiarity information: LOW-PRESSURE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not forceful
Context example:
a low-pressure campaign
Similar:
nonaggressive; unaggressive (not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness)
Context examples
A mass spectrometry technique in which a solid sample is atomized and ionized by sputtering in low-pressure direct-current plasma prior to the separation and detection of the ions in a mass analyzer.
(Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)
Under a low-pressure sodium (LPS) lamp, which makes everything appear monochromatic, like a black and white movie with a brownish-yellow filter, everyone looked sick.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
Many other factors also change the ground level, such as the movement of tectonic plates, volcanic activity, high- and low-pressure weather systems, and Earth's slow rebound from the last ice age.
(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)
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