hydrostatics
Americannoun
noun
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The scientific study of fluids, especially noncompressible liquids, in equilibrium with their surroundings and hence at rest. Hydrostatics has many applications in biology and engineering, as in the design of dams.
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Compare hydrodynamics
Etymology
Origin of hydrostatics
First recorded in 1650–60; see origin at hydrostatic, -ics
Example Sentences
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But does not hydrostatics dictate that the pressure of the water in this zone depends only on its depth?
From Scientific American ● Nov. 8, 2015
He was an authority on hydrostatics and electricity, but nothing human was alien to his interests.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I left Woolwich my coarse in mathematics consisted of plane and spherical trigonometry, conic sections, statics and dynamics, properties of roofs and arches, hydrostatics, projectiles, and the deferential and integral calculus.
From The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich by A.W. Drayson
He worked for his father, and an uncle who was a millwright, but found time to study hydrostatics, pneumatics, natural philosophy, p. 74as well as Hebrew, Greek and Latin.
From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by James Conway Walter
Consonants are divided into mutes, liquids and double letters; although they have nothing in particular to do with funerals, hydrostatics, or the General post office.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech
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