Pressure [noun]

Definition of Pressure:

physical force, weight

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Sentence/Example of Pressure:

Certain faculties develop in response to the pressure of environment.

Quite often the cave gave way to the pressure of the surrounding rock.

It is the crisis which makes the pressure, and not the laws which provide a remedy for it.

So great was the pressure of the throng that men fainted and had to be carried out.

At a pressure of 20 pounds, the temperature will be about 260 degrees.

The discharge is proportional to the square root of the pressure.

The village hotel throbbed with the pressure of unwonted business.

In other words the pressure of the wind increases with the square of the velocity.

Pressure of wind increases in proportion to the square of the velocity.

The greater this pressure the large and heavier the object which can be raised.