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pressure gradient

Pressure gradient is how much the atmospheric pressure lowers in an area at a specific time.

(noun)

An example of a pressure gradient is gale force winds turning into a light breeze in a specific city after an hour.

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See pressure gradient in Webster's New World College Dictionary

the rate of decrease in barometric pressure in a given region at a particular time

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