atmospheric pressure

Questions about atmospheric pressure

What does atmospheric pressure mean?

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

What is another word for atmospheric pressure?

Close synonyms include air 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 atmospheric pressure a common word?

atmospheric 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.