hydrostatics

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hy=dro=stat=ics

CIDE DICTIONARY

hydrostatics, n. [Cf. F. hydrostatique.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hydrostatics, n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) the branch of mechanics concerned with the hydrostatic properties of liquids.

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