High Pressure

Definition: High Pressure

High Pressure

Noun

1. An air mass of higher than normal pressure; "the east coast benefits from a Bermuda high".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: High Pressure

Excitation

Noun: excitation of feeling; mental excitement; suscitation, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection; animation, agitation, perturbation; subjugation, fascination, intoxication; enravishment; entrancement; pressure, tension, high pressure.

Physical Energy

Noun: energy, physical energy, force, power; keenness; Adjective: intensity, vigor, strength, elasticity; go; high pressure; fire; rush.

Crosswords: High Pressure

High Pressure (1932)

Silk Hose and High Pressure (1915)

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Books

• High Pressure Breathing Air Handbook (reference)

• High Pressure Arcs in Industrial Devices : Diagnostic and Monitoring Techniques (reference)

• High Pressure Liquid Chromatography in Clinical Chemistry (reference)

• Mantle Petrology Field Observations and High Pressure Experimentation: A Tribute (Special Publication (Geochemical Society), No. 6.) (reference)

• High Pressure Chemistry : Synthetic, Mechanistic, and Supercritical Applications (reference)

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Music

• High Pressure (reference)

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Most of the eastern U.S. was cloud free October 11.  Such widespread cloudlessness in this part of the world is rare. These clear skies are associated with a region of high pressure over the eastern central U.S. Credit: NASA.

Figure 43. Bergius pneumatic sounder. No documentation could be found for the design, construction, or testing of this instrument. It is probable that this instrument was created in the early Twentieth Century by Friedrich Bergius, a 1931 Nobel Prize winner, for study of high pressure chemical reactions. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 30. High pressure bottle devised by Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1890. The manometer was set in place after the bottle's return from the deep ocean in order to measure the pressure of the water sample. This bottle was used for collecting water samples at depth and returning them to the surface at the ambient water pressure at the depth of the sample. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns fifty-eight cents per hour. She is cleaning a locomotive with a high pressure nozzle. Mrs. Steven. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

This is not always true. High pressure puts you at risk for glaucoma. (references)

The enlarged blood vessels, called varices, have thin walls and carry high pressure, and thus are more likely to burst. (references)

In the early years after BPD was first reported, the treatment for RDS usually consisted of positive pressure ventilation, using a respirator to give high levels of oxygen under high pressure. (references)

Business

A high pressure on prices can be observed in the hospital sector as well. It is probable that steep price discounts are made for hospital sales in the expectation that use of medication will continue in out-patient therapy where prices are considerably higher. (references)

This decision led to a situation that country's distribution network is composed of transmission system and very high pressure distribution system owned by Transgas, and very high pressure distribution systems owned by individual regional distribution companies. (references)

On the Czech Republic's territory, the transmission system is composed of high pressure transmission pipeline system with total length of 2,450 km; seven underground storage systems of total capacity of 1.5 billion cubic meters and daily output of 19 million cubic meters; and six compression stations. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

According to press reports, after the January 23 self-immolations, the Government launched a massive anti-FLG propaganda campaign and initiated a comprehensive effort to round up practitioners not already in custody, and sanctioned the use of high pressure indoctrination tactics against the group in an effort to force them to renounce the FLG. Neighborhood committees, state institutions (including universities), and companies reportedly were ordered to send all known FLG practitioners to intensive anti-FLG study sessions. (references)

Economic History

Tunisia

THE NATURAL GAS NETWORK, WITH MAJOR INVESTMENT FROM BRITISH GAS, HAS GROWN TO 790 KILOMETERS OF HIGH PRESSURE LINES THAT SERVE THE PRINCIPAL POPULATION CENTERS. (references)

India

These 35 industries as defined by the Government in Annexure III to its statement on Industrial Policy of July 24, 1991, include: metallurgical industries; boilers and steam generating plants; prime movers (other than electrical generators); electrical equipment; transportation equipment; industrial machinery and equipment; agricultural machinery; earth-moving machinery; industrial instruments; scientific instruments; fertilizers; chemicals; drugs and pharmaceuticals; paper, pulp and paper products; heavy-duty rubberized and plastic products; plate glass; ceramics for industrial use; cement; high-technology reproduction equipment; carbon and carbon products; pre-tensioned high pressure RCC pipes; rubber machinery; printing machinery; welding electrodes; industrial synthetic diamonds; equipment for biotechnology applications; extraction and upgrading of minor oils; prefabricated building materials; soya products; high-yield seeds and live plants; food processing; food packaging; hotels and tourism; software development. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "high pressure": area of high pressure ♦ high pressure area ♦ high pressure compressor ♦ high pressure hose ♦ high pressure liquid chromatography ♦ High Pressure Neurological Syndrome ♦ high pressure system ♦ high pressure turbine ♦ high pressure valve ♦ ridge of high pressure ♦ subtropical high pressure belt. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

високонапорен, настоятелен (insistent, urgent), динамичен (dynamic, eventful). (various references)

Czech

intenzivní (concentrated, exquisite, intense, intensive, violent, vivid). (various references)

Danish

hoejtryks-vaeskekromatografi (high pressure liquid chromatography), hoejtryks-vaeskechromatografi (high pressure liquid chromatography), højtryksryg (ridge, ridge of high pressure, wedge), højtryksområde (anticyclone, anti-cyclone, high pressure area), højtryk (anticyclone, anti-cyclone, high pressure area), subtropisk hoejtryksbaelte (subtropical high pressure belt), saafremt trykket i olien fortsat falder trods tilbageledning af udstroemmet gas,benyttes den saakaldte gas lift-metode ved under tryk af lede en gasart ned i produktionsforingsroeret,saa denne faar olien til at emulgere og stige op (if the pressure of the oil continues to fall, in spite of gas re-injection, in which gas is pumped into the tubing under high pressure, recourse is had to the gas lift method, thus emulsifying the oil and causing it to rise), ryg (back), elasticitetshypertension (elasticity high blood pressure, elasticity high pressure), desuden kan gasudviklingen senere begynde igen under opsmeltningen,hvis stoerkningen skete under hoejt tryk og med en svag deoxydation med begraenset CO-udskillelse;dette forekommer under sammensvejsningen af den sejgrede zone i valsede produkter udfra fl (accompanied by weak deoxidation in the form of a limited evolution of CO, furthermore, then effervescence may recommence later during remelting ; this occurs during the welding of the segregated zone of products rolled from capped ingots, when solidification takes place under high pressure), anticyklon (anticyclone, anti-cyclone, high pressure area). (various references)

Dutch

hoge druk, HD. (various references)

Finnish

korkeapaine (anti-cyclone). (various references)

French

HP, haute pression, h.p.. (various references)

German

hochdruck (relief print, surface printing). (various references)

Greek 

υψηλή πίεση. (various references)

Hungarian

nagynyomású turbina (high pressure turbine), nagynyomású sûrítõ (high pressure compressor), magasnyomású terület (high pressure area), magasnyomású rendszer (high pressure system). (various references)

Italian

alta pressione (h.p.). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高圧縮 (high compression), 高圧 (high voltage). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うあつ (high voltage), �"うあっしゅく (high compression). (various references)

Manx

trome (bold, burdensome, close, close oppressive, crippling, crippling burden, deep, deep-drawn, dense, dense of smoke, difficult, emphatic, expectant, expecting, grave, grievous, gruelling, hard, harsh, heavy, heavyweight, intense, laborious, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, rough of sea, severe, sledge-hammer, steep, stodgy, substantial, sweated, wearying, weighty, with child), traastey mooar, ard-vroo. (various references)

Pig Latin

ighhay essurepray

Portuguese

press�o alta (high blood pressure). (various references)

Russian 

энергично (aggressively, energetically, hammer and tongs, spiritedly, vigorously, work at high pressure), работать быстро (work at high pressure). (various references)

Spanish

presión alta, enérgico (active, bold, brisk, dashing, determined, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, forthright, hearty, hot, lively, positive, powerful, pushful, snappy, spirited, sprightly, strenuous, strong, sturdy, telling, vigorous, vital, zippy), alta presión (h.p.), a.p. (h.p.). (various references)

Swedish

högtryck (letterpress). (various references)

Turkish

zorlayıcı (coercive, compelling, compulsive, compulsory, drastic, exigent, insistent, stringent), yüksek basınçlı, kararlı (bent, decided, decisive, determined, dogged, firm, flat-footed, hard core, immovable, inflexible, intent, professional, resolute, resolved, set, settled, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, steadfast, strong-minded, strong-willed, undeterred, unfaltering), güçlü (bouncing, brawny, energetic, forceful, full-blooded, heroic, iron, keen, mighty, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, prepotent, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spirited, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, vigorous, virile, voluminous), enerjik (active, beany, brisk, driving, dynamic, energetic, full of beans, ginger, gingery, lively, peppy, rustling, springy, vibrant, vigorous, virile, warm blooded, zippy), dinamik (dynamic, dynamics), azimli (Dauntless, dead-set on, decided, decisive, determined, dogged, flat-footed, full of zeal, hellbent, militant, peppy, persevering, pertinacious, professional, resolute, resolved, set, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, stout, strong-minded, stubborn, sturdy, undeterred, zealous). (various references)

Ukrainian

що ма�" високий тиск, напружений (arduous, chilly, constrained, eager, hot, prim, stiff, strained, stressful, strung, sulfurous, sulphurous, tensional, tight, wrought up). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: regisseur, surgeries.

-4 letters: perishes, perusers, pressure, priseres, reissuer, reprises, respires, resurges, sheepish, sherries, spherier, spurries, surprise, uprisers.

-5 letters: girshes, gripers, grushie, guesser, gurries, gurshes, gushers, gushier, heiress, herries, hurries, perries, peruser, peruses, presser, prisere, pugrees, purgers, pursers, pursier, pushers, pushier, pussier, regress, rehires, reissue, repress, reprise, rerises, reships, respire, resurge, rushees, rushers, rushier.