Posted by Josh on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 12:19pm.
Here is a good discussio of different types of pressure gauges. Absolute pressure = gauge pressure plus atmospheric pressure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_measurement
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