bar absolute

1. 1.

   the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter

   Synonymsbaryemicrobar

   Broaderpressure unit

   Part ofbar

Questions about bar absolute

What does bar absolute mean?

bar absolute means "the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter".

What is another word for bar absolute?

Close synonyms include barye, microbar. 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 bar absolute a common word?

bar absolute 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.