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Definition of Hydrostatics
1. Noun. Study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion.
Generic synonyms: Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics
Derivative terms: Hydrostatic
Definition of Hydrostatics
1. n. The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.
Definition of Hydrostatics
1. Noun. (physics) The scientific study of fluids at rest, especially when under pressure. ¹
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Definition of Hydrostatics
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrostatics
Literary usage of Hydrostatics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1858)
"hydrostatics. 377. THE principles of Mechanics demonstrated and explained in the
foregoing pages, are universal in their application, extending alike to all ..."
2. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"of Motion which is termed Dynamics, and which was not successfully treated till
the time of Galileo.) Sect. 2.—hydrostatics. ARCHIMEDES not only laid the ..."
3. Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied by Adolphe Ganot (1893)
"BOOK III ON LIQUIDS CHAPTER I hydrostatics 95. Province ci hydrostatics.—The
science of hydrostatics treats of the conditions of the equilibrium of liquids, ..."
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