adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She decided to give up her high-pressure job on Wall Street.
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Workers used high-pressure hoses to clean the rocks after the oil spill.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A high-pressure pump would be fitted to the outlet and the mix pumped along solid piping to the second floor.
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A short-circuit set off an explosion in the high-pressure chamber, a fire brigade official said.
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In branched polymers such as the older, high-pressure , polyethylene the molecular-weight between side chains is relevant.
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In some places army reserves were called out to protect public property, and in Manchester high-pressure water-hoses were used against demonstrators.
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Next, the compressor in the outdoor unit compresses the gas into a hot high-pressure state.
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Scientists assume that those planets' high-pressure cores contain metal hydrogen.
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The ease with which the dissolved high-pressure gases can escape from Hawaiian magmas leads to some very spectacular eruptions.
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These plant grains are heated under pressure till their water-content has turned to high-pressure steam.