English Explanatory Dictionary

negative pressure

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Pressure that is less than normal atmospheric pressure
The tension in a liquid that is thermodynamically metastable with respect to the vapour phase; especially that in the xylem of vascular plants that allows transpiration to great heights

Word forms

negative pressure negative pressures

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