noun
- Plural of megabar; units of pressure equal to one million bars, used in physics and materials science to describe extremely high pressures.
Usage: technical; scientific
Examples
- The experiment subjected the sample to pressures exceeding 10 megabars.
- Diamond synthesis often requires conditions of several megabars of pressure.
- Researchers measured the material's behavior at megabars of compression.
- The deep Earth's core experiences pressures in the range of hundreds of megabars.