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Definition of Statics
1. Noun. The branch of mechanics concerned with forces in equilibrium.
Definition of Statics
1. n. That branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them; -- distinguished from dynamics.
Definition of Statics
1. Noun. (physics) The branch of mechanics concerned with forces in static equilibrium ¹
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Definition of Statics
1. static [n] - See also: static
Lexicographical Neighbors of Statics
Literary usage of Statics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"statics are the DYNAMICS. easiest to treat, because we abstract from them ...
The whole of statics corresponds to the very small portion of Dynamics which ..."
2. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"statics are the DYNAMICS. easiest to treat, because we abstract from them ...
The whole of statics corresponds to the very small portion of Dynamics which ..."
3. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1893)
"As for its divisions, the first and most important is into statics and ...
statics divisions. are the easiest to treat, because we abstract from them ..."
4. The Elementary Part of a Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid by Edward John Routh (1897)
"This corresponds to the proposition in statics that "a couple" is properly ...
The analogy to statics. To explain a certain analogy which exists between ..."
5. The Elementary Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid by Edward John Routh (1905)
"This corresponds to the proposition in statics that " a couple " is properly ...
To explain a certain analogy which exists between statics and dynamics. ..."
6. The Elementary Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid by Edward John Routh (1905)
"This corresponds to the proposition in statics that " a couple " is properly ...
To explain a certain analogy which exists between statics and dynamics. ..."
7. The Christian Examiner edited by Edward Everett Hale (1865)
"—SPENCER'S SOCIAL statics. Social statics ; or, the Conditions essential to Human
Happiness specified, and the first of them developed. By HERBERT SPENCER. ..."
8. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"statics and Dynamics.—We must first turn our attention to a technical distinction
of Mechanics into two portions, according as the forces about which we ..."