hydraulic press

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   press in which a force applied by a piston to a small area is transmitted through water to another piston having a large area

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Questions about hydraulic press

What does hydraulic press mean?

hydraulic press means "press in which a force applied by a piston to a small area is transmitted through water to another piston having a large area".

Is hydraulic press a common word?

hydraulic press 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.