pressure vessel

noun

A container designed to maintain a volume at a significantly different pressure to that of ambient.

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Meanings

nounpressure vessel (plural pressure vessels)

plural pressure vessels

  1. A container designed to maintain a volume at a significantly different pressure to that of ambient.

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 壓力容器 /压力容器
  • 壓力容器 /压力容器 (yālì róngqì)container designed to maintain a volume
Finnish paineastia
  • paineastiacontainer designed to maintain a volume
French réservoir à pression
  • réservoir à pressioncontainer designed to maintain a volume
German Druckbehälter
  • Druckbehältercontainer designed to maintain a volume
Romanian recipient de presiune, rezervor de presiune
  • recipient de presiunecontainer designed to maintain a volume
  • rezervor de presiunecontainer designed to maintain a volume
  • vas de presiunecontainer designed to maintain a volume
Swedish tryckbehållare, tryckkärl
  • tryckbehållarecontainer designed to maintain a volume
  • tryckkärlcontainer designed to maintain a volume
Cite this entry
APA

pressure vessel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pressure%20vessel

MLA

“pressure vessel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pressure%20vessel. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pressure vessel,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pressure%20vessel.

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