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Princeton's WordNet

  1. radiation pressure, corpuscular-radiation pressure(noun)

    the minute pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a wave

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  1. radiation pressure(Noun)

    The pressure exerted by electromagnetic radiation on an object on which it impinges, as a consequence of its momentum.

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