pressure unit

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pressure unit - a unit measuring force per unit area unit, unit of measurement - any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume" atm, standard atmosphere, standard pressure, atmosphere - a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade pascal, Pa - a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter millimeter of mercury, mm Hg, torr - a unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere; named after Torricelli pounds per square inch, psi - a unit of pressure millibar - a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar; "atmospheric pressure at sea level is 1013 millibars" bar - (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter" bar absolute, barye, microbar - the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter