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Low-pressure   /loʊ-prˈɛʃər/   Listen
Low-pressure

adjective
1.
Not forceful.  "A low-pressure campaign"





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... the creator of low-pressure and high-pressure, the inspirer of the "ticker," is the great generator of business. Here I found Henderson in the morning hour, and he came up to me on the call of a messenger. He approached, nonchalant and smiling as usual. "Do you see that man," he said, as we stood a moment ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
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... engines may be placed as follows in the order of their general acceptance by the shipowning community: (1) The two-cylinder intermediate-receiver compound engine, having cranks at right angles. (2) The Woolf engine in the tandem form, having generally the high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders in line with each other, but occasionally alongside, and always communicating their power to one crank. Such a pair of engines is used sometimes singly, oftener two pairs together, working side by side to cranks at right angles; recently three pairs together, working to cranks placed 120 ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various
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Words linked to "Low-pressure" :   nonaggressive, unaggressive


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