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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The pressure that one component of a mixture of gases would exert if it were alone in a container.
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- noun physics (
chemistry ) The pressure one component of a mixture ofgases would contribute to the total pressure.
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