overpressure
- n a transient air pressure greater than the surrounding atmospheric pressure
the overpressure of the blast kills by lethal concussion
- An overpressure exceeding 20 p.
- Hippies commonly flee from father-absent homes in which despairing mothers either overindulge their children or, as surrogate achievers, overpressure them.
- In another room was the top-secret Bomb Alarm, a system of sensors and copper wires that crisscrossed the country and reacted to overpressure, heat and brilliance.