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OIL PRESSURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pressure that keeps oil on the moving parts of an internal-combustion engine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("oil pressure" is a kind of...):
force per unit area; pressure; pressure level (the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit))