oil pressure

1. 1.

   pressure that keeps oil on the moving parts of an internal-combustion engine

   Broaderpressure

Questions about oil pressure

What does oil pressure mean?

oil pressure means "pressure that keeps oil on the moving parts of an internal-combustion engine".

Is oil pressure a common word?

oil 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.