overpressure

Other forms: overpressures

Definitions of overpressure
  1. noun
    a transient air pressure greater than the surrounding atmospheric pressure
    “the overpressure of the blast kills by lethal concussion”
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    type of:
    air pressure, atmospheric pressure, pressure
    the pressure exerted by the atmosphere
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