"working pressure" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: working pressures [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} working pressure (countable and uncountable, plural working pressures)
  1. The pressure that something that operates under and contains pressure normally works at; the specified maximum working pressure is set below the test pressure. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (working pressure): arbejdstryk [neuter] (Danish), arbeidstrykk [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), arbeidstrykk [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    Sense id: en-working_pressure-en-noun-2ClRVFm3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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