air pressure

1. 1.

   the pressure exerted by the atmosphere

   Synonymsatmospheric pressurepressure

   Broadergas pressure

   Narrowerbarometric pressurecompartment pressureoverpressuresea-level pressure

Questions about air pressure

What does air pressure mean?

air pressure means "the pressure exerted by the atmosphere".

What is another word for air pressure?

Close synonyms include atmospheric pressure, pressure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air pressure a common word?

air 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.