Pressure

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  • Pressure
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  • The force per unit area exerted by a particle distribution or field
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  • P
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Abstract from DBPedia
    Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed. Gauge pressure (also spelled gage pressure) is the pressure relative to the ambient pressure. Various are used to express pressure. Some of these derive from a unit of force divided by a unit of area; the SI unit of pressure, the pascal (Pa), for example, is one newton per square metre (N/m2); similarly, the pound-force per square inch (psi) is the traditional unit of pressure in the imperial and U.S. customary systems. Pressure may also be expressed in terms of standard atmospheric pressure; the atmosphere (atm) is equal to this pressure, and the torr is defined as 1⁄760 of this. Manometric units such as the centimetre of water, millimetre of mercury, and inch of mercury are used to express pressures in terms of the height of column of a particular fluid in a manometer.

    圧力(あつりょく、英: pressure)とは、 * 物体の表面あるいは内部の任意の面に向かい垂直に押す力のこと。 * (比喩)人を威圧して従わせようとする力のこと。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pressure)