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- adjective Without
pressure or the use of pressure.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It involves shipping the experiment up to the space station and installing it into the Microgravity Science Glovebox in a pressureless, weightless room on board the European-built Columbus module of the station.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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It involves shipping the experiment up to the space station and installing it into the Microgravity Science Glovebox in a pressureless, weightless room on board the European-built Columbus module of the station.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Her small, almost pressureless chafing gestures roused him.
Beard 2010
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So objects with high pressure actually produce more gravity than pressureless objects (which does come into play with, say, neutron star structure).
Dark Matter: Still Existing Sean 2007
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Like one sun-blinded, he stood in the pressureless flood of power and gasped, unable to sense anything beyond the light,
Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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The antidote, Collins said, is to switch to pressureless balls, which are not popular in the United States, or to switch to metal cans, which are twice the price of plastic cans.
NYT > Home Page By KEN BELSON 2011
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