high-pressure
(a.)高壓的,高氣壓的,壓製的(vt.)施以高壓,強迫
High-pres·sure a.
1. Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc.
2. Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life.
High-pressure engine, an engine in which steam at high pressure is used. It may be either a condensing or a noncondensing engine. Formerly the term was used only of the latter. See Steam engine.
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high-pressure
adj : aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting
advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman" [syn:
hard-hitting]