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STANDARD ATMOSPHERE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does standard atmosphere mean?
• STANDARD ATMOSPHERE (noun)
The noun STANDARD ATMOSPHERE has 1 sense:
1. a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
Familiarity information: STANDARD ATMOSPHERE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
atm; atmosphere; standard atmosphere; standard pressure
Hypernyms ("standard atmosphere" is a kind of...):
pressure unit (a unit measuring force per unit area)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "standard atmosphere"):
Context examples
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 133,332 Pa or 1.316E10-3 standard atmosphere.
(Millimeter of Mercury, NCI Thesaurus)
A rate of inflation or deflation of a manometric device based on the unit of pressure equal to 133,332 Pa or 1.316E10-3 standard atmosphere during period of time equal to one sixtieth of a minute.
(Millimeter of Mercury per Second, NCI Thesaurus)
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