atmospheric pressure

English

Noun

atmospheric pressure (countable and uncountable, plural atmospheric pressures)

1. (physics, meteorology) The pressure caused by the weight of the atmosphere above an area.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

Synonyms

• air pressure
• barometric pressure

Translations

pressure caused by weight of the atmosphere

• Afrikaans: lugdruk
• Albanian: presioni atmosferik
• Arabic: ضغط جوي
• Aragonese: presión atmosferica f
• Armenian: մթնոլորտային ճնշում (hy) (mtʿnolortayin čnšum)
• Asturian: presión atmosférica f
• Azerbaijani: atmosfer təzyiqi
• Bashkir: атмосфера баҫымы (atmosfera baśımı)
• Basque: presio atmosferiko
• Belarusian: атмасферны ціск m (atmasfjerny cisk)
• Bengali: বায়ুমণ্ডলীয় চাপ (baẏumonḍoliẏo cap)
• Bulgarian: атмосферно налягане n (atmosferno naljagane)
• Catalan: pressió atmosfèrica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大氣壓／大气压 (zh) (dàqìyā), 氣壓／气压 (zh) (qìyā)

• Czech: atmosférický tlak m
• Danish: lufttryk (da) n, atmosfæretryk n, atmosfærisk tryk n
• Dutch: luchtdruk (nl) m
• Esperanto: atmosfera premo
• Estonian: õhurõhk
• Finnish: ilmanpaine (fi)
• French: pression atmosphérique (fr) f
• Galician: presión atmosférica (gl) f
• Georgian: ატმოსფერული წნევა (aṭmosperuli c̣neva)
• German: Atmosphärendruck m, Luftdruck (de) m
• Greek: ατμοσφαιρική πίεση (el) f (atmosfairikí píesi)
• Hebrew: לחץ אטמוספירי
• Hindi: वायुमंडलीय दाब (vāyumaṇḍlīya dāb)
• Hungarian: légnyomás (hu)
• Icelandic: loftþrýstingur (is) m
• Indonesian: tekanan atmosfer
• Irish: brú an atmaisféir m, brú atmaisféarach m
• Italian: pressione atmosferica (it) f
• Japanese: 気圧 (ja) (きあつ, kiatsu)
• Kazakh: атмосфералық қысым (atmosferalyq qysym)
• Korean: 대기압 (daegiap)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pestoya atmosferê f

• Kyrgyz: атмосфера басымы (atmosfera basımı)
• Latvian: atmosfēras spiediens
• Lithuanian: atmosferos slėgis
• Macedonian: атмосферски притисок m (atmosferski pritisok)
• Malay: tekanan atmosfera (ms)
• Malayalam: അന്തരീക്ഷമർദ്ദം m (antarīkṣamaṟddaṁ)
• Marathi: वातावरणाचा दाब (vātāvarṇācā dāb)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: агаарын даралт (agaaryn daralt)

  Mongolian: ᠠᠭᠠᠷ ᠦᠨ
  ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠯᠲᠠ (aɣar-ün darulta)

• Nepali: वायुमण्डलीय चाप (vāyumaṇḍalīya cāp)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lufttrykk n, atmosfæretrykk n, atmosfærisk trykk n

  Nynorsk: lufttrykk n, atmosfæretrykk n

• Persian: فشار اتمسفری
• Polish: ciśnienie atmosferyczne n
• Portuguese: pressão atmosférica (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਵਾਯੂਮੰਡਲ ਦਬਾਅ (vāyūmaṇḍal dabāa)
• Romanian: presiune atmosferică (ro) f
• Russian: атмосфе́рное давле́ние (ru) n (atmosférnoje davlénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: atmosferski tlak m
• Slovak: atmosférický tlak m
• Slovene: zračni tlak m
• Spanish: presión atmosférica (es) f, presión barométrica f
• Swahili: kanieneo angahewa
• Swedish: lufttryck (sv) n, atmosfärtryck (sv) n
• Tagalog: kaanginaning diin, bunto ng hangin, diing angin
• Tamil: வளிமண்டல அழுத்தம் (vaḷimaṇṭala aḻuttam)
• Thai: ความกดอากาศ (kwaam-gòt-aa-gàat)
• Turkish: atmosfer basıncı (tr)
• Ukrainian: атмосферний тиск (uk) m (atmosfernyj tysk)
• Urdu: ہوا کا دباؤ (hvā kā dbāo)
• Uzbek: atmosfera bosimi
• Welsh: gwasgedd atmosfferig m