Pressure_wave Pressure_wave

Pressure wave - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Advocate, Affliction, Aggravation, Albatross, Annoyance, Ascendancy, Authority, Bale, Bearing, Beset, Blight, Boost, Bug, Bummer, Bump, Bunt


A pressure wave in a fluid is a travelling disturbance consisting in a local change of pressure (hence the name). Sound waves in air are pressure waves.

Example Usage of Pressure

modulista: @cristnabls Spill it. And make it good. No Pressure.
JabbatheMatt: Used my parents molasses-slow computer this morning. My blood Pressure must've been in the stratosphere.
mw55: RT @StephanieAbrams: Pressure of storm down to 992mb!....... Now that's some handy info to have right there.
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