sound pressure

1. 1.

   the difference between the instantaneous pressure at a point in a sound field and the average pressure at that point

   Synonymsinstantaneous sound pressure

   Broaderpressure

Questions about sound pressure

What does sound pressure mean?

sound pressure means "the difference between the instantaneous pressure at a point in a sound field and the average pressure at that point".

What is another word for sound pressure?

Close synonyms include instantaneous sound 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 sound pressure a common word?

sound 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.