acoustic radiation pressure

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   (acoustics) the pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a sound wave

   Broaderradiation pressure

   acoustics

Questions about acoustic radiation pressure

What does acoustic radiation pressure mean?

acoustic radiation pressure means "(acoustics) the pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a sound wave".

Is acoustic radiation pressure a common word?

acoustic radiation pressure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.