vapour pressure

1. 1.

   the pressure exerted by a vapor; often understood to mean saturated vapor pressure (the vapor pressure of a vapor in contact with its liquid form)

   Synonymsvapor pressure

   Broaderpressure

Questions about vapour pressure

What does vapour pressure mean?

vapour pressure means "the pressure exerted by a vapor; often understood to mean saturated vapor pressure (the vapor pressure of a vapor in contact with its liquid form)".

What is another word for vapour pressure?

Close synonyms include vapor 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 vapour pressure a common word?

vapour 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.