Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Low-pressure \Low"-pres`sure\, a.
Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.
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same as easygoing, 4; as, a low-pressure salesman.
Syn: easygoing.
Low-pressure steam engine, a steam engine in which low steam is used; often applied to a condensing engine even when steam at high pressure is used. See Steam engine.
Wiktionary
a. The opposite of high-pressure, defined by contrast. Uses include: A low-pressure zone in meteorology, a low-pressure steam pipe (which is not as dangerous as a high-pressure one).
WordNet
adj. not forceful; "a low-pressure salesman"; "a low-pressure campaign"
Usage examples of "low-pressure".
The technicians blocked the duct intake forward of the low-pressure compressors, placed a pressure gauge just aft of the combustor, and powered up the test rig that Sir Malcolm had outlined.
Low-pressure systems are created by rising air, which conveys water molecules into the sky, forming clouds and eventually rain.
One of the minor discomforts of life on the Moon is that really hot drinks are an impossibility water boils at about seventy degrees centigrade in the oxygen-rich, low-pressure atmosphere universally employed.
Over the Atlantic a low-pressure air mass was advancing in an easterly direction toward Russia.
But there's a nasty-looking low-pressure convection cooking down east of Puerto Rico.
Low-pressure steam was piped over and run through the heat exchanger shells while water from the plant's fire main was passed through the coils.
Ford must have ordered this little charivari the minute the time was set-and, at that, the integrators must have had a big low-pressure area close at hand to build on.
That was better-weather-storm fronts of thought, high-pressure zones, low-pressure cells, hurricanes-the jet streams of biological desires, always making their swift powerful rounds .
He frowned, recalling a passage from one of Dorrin's old texts, claiming that anything other than low-pressure steam engines would be impossible without using black iron.
We're lucky it's fed by low-pressure steam for heating the staterooms above or we'll know how a poor lobster feels in the pot when she drops loose.
AMF's expansion is the work of slow-spoken, low-pressured Chairman Morehead Patterson, 64, who took over the company in 1943 from his father, Rufus L.
No storms were expected despite the low-pressure ridge, and Passover—.
No storms were expected despite the low-pressure ridge, and Passover -- the ominous conjunction of the three moons that produced the fiercest storms -- was nine weeks away.
The rectifiers used a low-pressure mercury vapor cell containing a current-carrying plasma.