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/loʊ-prˈɛʃər/ Listen

adjective

Low-pressure adj.

Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.

Same as easygoing, 4; as, a low-pressure salesman.

Synonyms: easygoing.

Low-pressure steam engine, a steam engine in which low steam is used; often applied to a condensing engine even when steam at high pressure is used. See Steam engine.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Low-pressure" Quotes from Famous Books

... his and the diver's helmets floated straight up to the skylights, along which they glided and vanished through a hole in the glass. The water, moving gently with the pulse of the swell, broke the beam of light and objects it touched were distorted and magnified. The top of the big low-pressure cylinder looked gigantic, and the thick columns appeared to bend. Long weed clung to the platforms, from which iron ladders went down, but so far as Lister could distinguish, all below was buried ...

— Lister's Great Adventure • Harold Bindloss

... that these atoms are so keen to get over to A, where there is plenty of room, that they jostle each other, and that makes them go round and round. If they go round and round against the clock, like that, they are called cyclones, or depressions, or low-pressure systems. If they go with the clock, like that, it is ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 18th, 1920 • Various