air pressure

collocation in English

meanings of airand pressure

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings.
air
noun
uk /eər/ us /er/
the mixture of gases that surrounds the earth and that ...
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pressure
noun
uk /ˈpreʃ.ər/ us /ˈpreʃ.ɚ/
the force you produce when you ...
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Examples of air pressure

air pressure
Drug solutions were ejected by applying 0.3- 0.5 bar airpressure.
The collision frequency is changed by adjusting the background airpressure.
Because no airpressure builds up, no event as salient as a burst occurs before the oral closure of the stop.
These are the "normal modes" of the hall, the resonant frequencies of airpressure modulations around background pressure (synaptic field modulations).
An ideal environment would be a place that is naturally very cold and very dry, with low airpressure and background radiation.
Implosives fit this definition very well, as they are typically produced with implosion, which requires negative oral airpressure at the moment of release.
This is true trivially at short time scales (sound is airpressure changes in time), and generally so at long time scales since 'sounds change'.
The rate of dye injection is controlled by adjusting the supply airpressure.
Measurements of intra-oral airpressure between the alveolar and the velar closures show that pressure falls before the velar release.
However, why should higher airpressure have an effect only on lateral displacement of the oral and glottal walls?
It absorbs more of the airpressure than it should during the closing stroke.
A positive airpressure externally assists in driving rain through gaps in the construction.
The air space subdivided into a series of compartments so that airpressure can be equalised.
The effect of varying the value of the initial airpressure pa, on the equilibrium radii will be considered next.
The air supply to the cylinder was manipulated by an electro-pneumatic transducer that provided an airpressure proportional to the supply voltage.
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