Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mechanical pressure due to the impact of light-waves upon a body placed in their path. See
pressure , 2 .
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Examples
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Her skin is a light-pressure red layered with a light-pressure brown, her hair is medium-pressure blue with medium-strong-pressure black overlaid.
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The drawback of the light-pressure drive is that it makes no difference what your previous course and speed may be; if you go inertialess in the near neighborhood of a star, its light pressure kicks you away from it like a cork hit by a stream of water.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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"Eh? We'll decelerate the same way we accelerated-with your light-pressure drive."
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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Libby was explaining the consequences of his light-pressure drive to his new commanding officer.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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"Eh? We'll decelerate the same way we accelerated-with your light-pressure drive."
Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958
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Libby was explaining the consequences of his light-pressure drive to his new commanding officer.
Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958
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The drawback of the light-pressure drive is that it makes no difference what your previous course and speed may be; if you go inertialess in the near neighborhood of a star, its light pressure kicks you away from it like a cork hit by a stream of water.
Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958
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It was like the insanely enlarging head of a newborn comet, whose tail would be formed presently by light-pressure.
The Aliens Murray Leinster 1935
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Latterly, however, the authority of Arrhenius of Stockholm has lent vogue to a "light-pressure" hypothesis, according to which, cometary appendages are formed of particles driven from the sun by the mechanical stress of his radiations.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The light-pressure varies with the surface of the particle upon which it is exercised; the gravitational attraction varies with the mass or volume.
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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