force per unit area

Questions about force per unit area

What does force per unit area mean?

force per unit area means "the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)".

What is another word for force per unit area?

Close synonyms include pressure, pressure level. 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 force per unit area a common word?

force per unit area 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.