Negative Pressure

Negative pressure may refer to:

  • negative pressure as opposed to positive pressure
  • stretched liquid
  • vacuum
  • negative gauge pressure, a way of expressing pressure measurements below atmospheric pressure
  • suction
  • transpirational pull

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or pressure:

    “Our role is to support anything positive in black life and destroy anything negative that touches it. You have no other reason for being. I don’t understand art for art’s sake. Art is the guts of the people.”
    —Elma Lewis (b. 1921)

    “By school age, many boys experience pressure to reveal inner feelings as humiliating. They think their mothers are saying to them, “You must be hiding something shameful.” And shucking clams is a snap compared to prying secrets out of a boy who’s decided to “clam up.””
    —Ron Taffel (20th century)