pounds per square inch

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   a unit of pressure

   Synonymspsi

   Broaderpressure unit

Questions about pounds per square inch

What does pounds per square inch mean?

pounds per square inch means "a unit of pressure".

What is another word for pounds per square inch?

Close synonyms include psi. 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 pounds per square inch a common word?

pounds per square inch 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.