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"a high-pressure salesman"adjectiveaggressively and persistently persuasive
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Definition that contains high pressure
- wind air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
- anticyclone (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern
- haber process an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalyst
- hydrocracking the process whereby hydrocarbon molecules of petroleum are broken down into kerosene and gasolene by the addition of hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst
- blast wave a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity
- haber-bosch process an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalyst
- water cannon a hose (carried on a truck) that fires water under high pressure to disperse crowds (especially crowds of rioters)
- piezometer a measuring instrument for measuring high pressures
- compressed gas gas at a high pressure that can be used as a propellant
- o ring a gasket consisting of a flat ring of rubber or plastic; used to seal a joint against high pressure