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Verb
/ˈpreSHəˌrīz/,
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pressurising, present participle; pressurizing, present participle; pressurizes, 3rd person singular present; pressurized, past tense; pressurised, past tense; pressurises, 3rd person singular present; pressurised, past participle; pressurized, past participle;
  1. Produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container)
    • - the mixture was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres
    • - a pressurized can
  2. Maintain a tolerable atmospheric pressure in (an aircraft cabin) at a high altitude
    • - a pressurized cabin
  3. Attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something
    • - the protests were an attempt to pressurize the government into bringing an end to the violence
    • - people had been pressurized to vote
  1. supercharge: increase the pressure on a gas or liquid
  2. maintain a certain pressure; "the airplane cabin is pressurized"; "pressurize a space suit"
  3. A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume.
  4. (Pressurizer) The basic design of the pressurized water reactor includes a requirement that the water (reactor coolant or coolant) in the reactor coolant system not boil. Another way to put this is that the coolant must remain in the liquid state at all times, especially in the reactor vessel. ...
  5. Pressurization is the application of pressure in a given situation or environment; and more specifically refers to the process by which atmospheric pressure is maintained in an isolated or semi-isolated atmospheric environment (for instance, in an aircraft, or whilst scuba diving).
  6. (Pressurized) Is said of an airplane’s sealed cabin in which the air pressure is kept at a level suitable for passengers.
  7. (PRESSURIZATION) to prevent defects due to dust and impurities, the air of a coating workshop is filtered and kept above atmospheric pressure.
  8. (pressurization) A protection technique which enables the hazardous area classification of an enclosed space to be reduced by purging the enclosure with clean air or an inert gas, and then by maintaining a minimum prescribed positive pressure to prevent the ingress of a flammable atmosphere. ...