low-pressure
Speech parts
1. low-pressure - Adjective
2. low-pressure - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.
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a low-pressure salesman
a low-pressure campaign
A compound turbine is a steam turbine in which there are two casings, a high- pressure casing and a low-pressure casing, operating in concert to extract work from a single source of steam.
Also referred to as twisters, a collequial term in America, or cyclones, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology, in a wider sense, to name any closed low-pressure circulation.
Air above the airfoil is pushed toward the center of the low-pressure region, and air below the airfoil is pushed outward from the center of the high-pressure region.
A low-pressure system will lead to a quick change in temperatures in southern Alberta, but there will be some warmer days later in the week in Calgary.