ambient pressure
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]ambient pressure (countable and uncountable, plural ambient pressures)
- (sciences) Pressure of the surrounding medium on an object, such as a gas or liquid, which comes into contact with the object.
References
[edit]- McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms (2003) “ambient pressure”, in Answers.com[1], McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.