Vacuum vs Pressure - What's the difference?
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A region of space that contains no matter.
A vacuum cleaner.
The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
* (rfdate) (Macaulay)
Distress.
* 1649 , (Eikon Basilike)
* (rfdate) (Atterbury)
Urgency
(obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
(physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
In transitive terms the difference between vacuum and pressure
is that vacuum is to clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner while pressure is to encourage or heavily exert force or influence.vacuum
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Alternative forms
* (rare)Noun
(wikipedia vacuum) (en-noun)- a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch
Usage notes
* In the sense of "a region of space that contains no matter", the plural of vacuum' is either '''vacua''' or '''vacuums'''. In the sense of a "vacuum cleaner" ' vacuums is the only plural. * The Latin in vacuo'' is sometimes used instead of ''in a vacuum (in free space).Synonyms
* (vacuum cleaner) hoover (British )Antonyms
* (region of space that contains no matter) plenumDerived terms
* power vacuum * vacuum brake * vacuum cleaner * vacuum pan * vacuum valveSynonyms
* (transitive sense) to hoover (British) * (intransitive sense) to do the hoovering, to hoover (British)pressure
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Noun
- Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
- the pressure''' of poverty; the '''pressure''' of taxes; the '''pressure''' of motives on the mind; the ' pressure of civilization.
- Where the pressure of danger was not felt.
- She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first.
- My people's pressures are grievous.
- In the midst of his great troubles and pressures .
- the pressure of business
- All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past.
Synonyms
* (distress) affliction, grievance * (urgency)Derived terms
* blood pressure * negative pressure * intraocular pressure * peer pressure * pressurize, pressurise * pressure altimeter * pressure altitude * pressure angle * pressure area * pressure atrophy * pressure bag * pressure bandage * pressure bar * pressure block * pressure cabin * pressure cable * pressure casting * pressure cell * pressure centre, pressure center * pressure chamber * pressure coefficient * pressure contour * pressure cooker * pressure decline * pressure deflection * pressure depth * pressure distillate * pressure distribution * pressure effect * pressure element * pressure epiphysis * pressure fan * pressure field * pressure flaking * pressure flip * pressure force * pressure gauge * pressure gradient * pressure group * pressure head * pressure hull * pressure hydrophone * pressure ice * pressure interface * pressure ionization * pressure jump * pressure line * pressure maintenance * pressure mark * pressure melting * pressure microphone * pressure mine * pressure naphtha * pressure of speech and pressured speech * pressure pad * pressure paralysis * pressure pattern * pressure penitente * pressure pickup * pressure pillow * pressure pipe * pressure point * pressure radius * pressure rating * pressure regulator * pressure ridge * pressure ring * pressure roll * pressure seal * pressure sense * pressure sensibility * pressure-sensitive * pressure solution * pressure sore * pressure suit * pressure survey * pressure tank * pressure tap * pressure tendency * pressure tube * pressure tunnel * pressure ulcer * pressure vector * pressure vessel * pressure viscosity * pressure washer * pressure wave * pressure welding * pressure zone * under pressureSee also
* (units of pressure) pascal (Pa); bar, barye (Ba); pounds per square inch (psi, lbf/in2, lb/in2), torr, mmHg, atmosphere (atm)Verb
(pressur)- Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.