standard pressure

Questions about standard pressure

What is another word for standard pressure?

It depends which standard pressure you mean. In the sense “a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade”, the synonyms are standard atmosphere, atmosphere, atm. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of standard pressure?

WordNet records no antonym for standard pressure. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for standard pressure come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of standard pressure

• Full entry for standard pressureAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for standard pressureWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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