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Definition: BACK PRESSURE |
BACK PRESSURE1. (Steam engine), pressure which resists the motion of the piston, as the pressure of exhaust steam which does not find free outlet. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | Pressure exerted backward; in a field of fluid flow, a pressure exerted contrary to the pressure producing the main flow. (references) |
Environment | A pressure that can cause water to backflow into the water supply when a user's waste water system is at a higher pressure than the public system. (references) |
Mining | A. Resistance transferred from rock into drill stem when bit is being fed at a faster rate than the bit can cut b. Pressure applied to the underside of the piston in the hydraulic-feed cylinder to partially support the weight of the drill rods and hence reduce pressure on the bit c. Rock pressures affecting the uppermost portion or roof in anunderground mine opening. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "BACK PRESSURE": exhaust back pressure. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
back pressure valve | 16 |
back pressure regulator | 13 |
back pressure | 7 |
back pressure turbine | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BACK PRESSURE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | modtryksindustrikraftvaerk (back pressure power station). (various references) | |
French | POB (operating back pressure), contre-pression en service (operating back pressure). (various references) | |
German | industrielles Gegendruckkraftwerk (back pressure power station). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kilépési ellennyomás (exhaust back pressure). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 背圧 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はいあつ. (various references) | |
Manx | aavroo, aahrimmid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackbay essurepray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-k-p-r-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: cupbearers, superraces. | |
-3 letters: cupbearer, ecraseurs, puckerers, sapsucker, supercars, superrace, upbearers. | |
-4 letters: asperser, barkeeps, becurses, berserks, bespeaks, breakers, breakups, caperers, caresser, creasers, ecraseur, erasures, escapers, perusers, prebakes, precures, pressure, puckerer, reassure, rebukers, rescuers, respaces, respeaks, scarpers, scaupers, scrapers, securers, sparkers, speakers, spearers, subraces, subspace, superber, supercar, surcease, upbearer. | |
-5 letters: abusers, acerber, apercus, arcuses, asperse, assurer, backers, backups, barkeep, barkers, beakers, bearers, because, becurse, berakes, berserk, bespake, bespeak, bracers, breaker, breakup, brusker, buckers, buckras, burkers, bursars, bursera, buskers, caperer, careers, carpers, causers, cerebra, ceruses, cesurae, cesuras, crasser, creaser, creases, curares, curbers, cursers, erasers, erasure, escaper, escapes, escarps, packers, pareses, parkers, parsecs, parsers, parures, pausers, peckers, percuss, perukes, peruser, peruses, prebake, precess, precure, prerace, presser, puckers, pursers, rackers, raspers, rasures, reapers, rebecks, rebuker, rebukes, rebuses, recuses, repacks, reparks, reperks, repress, reracks, rescuer, rescues, reseaus, respace, respeak, rubaces, rubasse, sackers, saucers, scarers, scarper, scauper, scraper, scrapes, screaks, secpars, securer, secures, serapes, spacers, sparers, sparker, sparser, speaker, spearer, sprucer, spruces, subrace, subsere, suckers, sucrase, surbase, upbears, uprears, ureases. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 43 4B 50 52 45 53 53 55 52 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01010000 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 01010101 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A C K   P R E S S U R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0043 004B 0050 0052 0045 0053 0053 0055 0052 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3635374525052395353555239 |
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