radiation pressure

1. 1.

   the minute pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a wave

   Synonymscorpuscular-radiation pressure

   Broaderpressure

   Narroweracoustic radiation pressure

Questions about radiation pressure

What does radiation pressure mean?

radiation pressure means "the minute pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a wave".

What is another word for radiation pressure?

Close synonyms include corpuscular-radiation pressure. 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 radiation pressure a common word?

radiation 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.