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Hydrostatics

noun
1.
Study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion.





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"Hydrostatics" Quotes from Famous Books



... man hasn't money, what is he to do? Now this divides itself into what is called Hydrostatics an' Metaphuysics, and must be proved logically ...
— The Poor Scholar - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton
... useful. It took the direction natural to his sphere, and the wants therein—viz., to the arts which call mechanical. He wanted to know about steam-engines and artesian wells; and to know about them it was necessary to know something of mechanics and hydrostatics; so he bought popular elementary works on those mystic sciences, and set all the powers of his ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various
... The testimony for a Ghost would seldom go to a jury in our days, though amply sufficient in the time of Mr. Sinclair. About "The Devil of Glenluce" he took particular care to be well informed, and first gave it to the world in a volume on—you will never guess what subject—Hydrostatics! In the present ...
— Adventures among Books • Andrew Lang


Words linked to "Hydrostatics" :   hydraulics, law of Archimedes, principle of liquid displacement, hydrostatic, fluid mechanics, Archimedes' principle


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