Hydrostatics

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:15:03

Hy`dro*stat"ics (?), n. [Cf. F. hydrostatique.] Physics

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.

 

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