high-pressure

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Adjective
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high-pres=sure

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective high-pressure has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

high-pressurea. 
  •  Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Using intense psychological pressure or other incentives to convince others to do things; aggressively persistent; as, high-pressure salesmen; high-pressure tactics.  [PJC]
High-pressure engine, an engine in which steam at high pressure is used. It may be either a condensing or a noncondensing engine. Formerly the term was used only of the latter. See Steam engine.

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