standard atmosphere

1. 1.

   a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade

   Synonymsatmosphereatmstandard pressure

   Broaderpressure unit

   NarrowerSTP

Questions about standard atmosphere

What does standard atmosphere mean?

standard atmosphere means "a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade".

What is another word for standard atmosphere?

Close synonyms include atmosphere, atm, standard 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 standard atmosphere a common word?

standard atmosphere 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.