FORCE PER UNIT AREA
Dictionary entry overview: What does force per unit area mean?
• FORCE PER UNIT AREA (noun)
The noun FORCE PER UNIT AREA has 1 sense:
1. the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)
Familiarity information: FORCE PER UNIT AREA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FORCE PER UNIT AREA (noun)
Meaning:
The force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
force per unit area; pressure; pressure level
Context example:
the compressed gas exerts an increased pressure
Hypernyms ("force per unit area" is a kind of...):
physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physics of matter and energy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "force per unit area"):
blood pressure (the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the heart; sometimes measured for a quick evaluation of a person's health)
suction (a force over an area produced by a pressure difference)
instantaneous sound pressure; sound pressure (the difference between the instantaneous pressure at a point in a sound field and the average pressure at that point)
corpuscular-radiation pressure; radiation pressure (the minute pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a wave)
osmotic pressure ((physical chemistry) the pressure exerted by a solution necessary to prevent osmosis into that solution when it is separated from the pure solvent by a semipermeable membrane)
oil pressure (pressure that keeps oil on the moving parts of an internal-combustion engine)
intraocular pressure (pressure inside the eyeball;regulated by resistance to the outward flow of aqueous humor)
hydrostatic head (the pressure at a given point in a liquid measured in terms of the vertical height of a column of the liquid needed to produce the same pressure)
head (the pressure exerted by a fluid)
gas pressure (the pressure exerted by a gas)
vapor pressure; vapour pressure (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))
