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What does atmospheric pressure mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word atmospheric pressure? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (physics) The pressure caused by the weight of the atmosphere above an area.
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To keep it running, you have to keep the pressure in the hose higher than atmospheric pressure.
It was furthermore shown that there is at atmospheric pressure very strong tendency for mercury to amalgamate iron.
In this case, the collapse is actually attributed to gravity and not atmospheric pressure.
Compared with total atmospheric pressure, airborne sound waves represent extremely small pressure changes.
He would record the temperature, atmospheric pressure, the degree of cloud cover, whether there was rain or snow.
In this process, the difficult-to-bond plastic is exposed to a corona discharge, usually in the presence of air and at atmospheric pressure.

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