VAPOR PRESSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vapor pressure mean? 

• VAPOR PRESSURE (noun)
  The noun VAPOR PRESSURE has 1 sense:

1. the pressure exerted by a vapor; often understood to mean saturated vapor pressure (the vapor pressure of a vapor in contact with its liquid form)

  Familiarity information: VAPOR PRESSURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VAPOR PRESSURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The pressure exerted by a vapor; often understood to mean saturated vapor pressure (the vapor pressure of a vapor in contact with its liquid form)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

vapor pressure; vapour pressure

Hypernyms ("vapor pressure" is a kind of...):

force per unit area; pressure; pressure level (the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit))

 Context examples 

The speed at which each substance is carried along by the mobile phase depends on its solubility (in a liquid mobile phase) or vapor pressure (in a gas mobile phase) and on its affinity for the sorbent.

(Chromatography, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A special class of inhalations consisting of a drug or combination of drugs, that by virtue of their high vapor pressure, can be carried by an air current into the nasal passage where they exert their effect; the container from which the inhalant generally is administered is known as an inhaler.

(Inhalant Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)