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Webster 1913 Edition

Hydrostatics

Hyˊdro-stat′ics

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Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hydrostatics

HYDROSTAT'ICS

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Noun.
The science which treats of the weight, motion, and equilibriums of fluids, or of the specific gravity and other properties of fluids, particularly of water.
Hydrostatics is that branch of the science of hydrodynamics which treats of the properties of fluids at rest.

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