1. 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.