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Aerostatic

Aerostatic \A`["e]r*o*stat"ic\, Aerostatical \A`["e]r*o*stat"ic*al\, a. [A["e]ro- + Gr. ?: cf. F. a['e]rostatique. See Statical, Statics.]

  1. Of or pertaining to a["e]rostatics; pneumatic.

  2. A["e]ronautic; as, an a["e]rostatic voyage.

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aerostatic

a. 1 Pertaining to the weight of air. 2 Pertaining to aerial navigation or aeronautics.

Usage examples of "aerostatic".

The production of this gas is easy, and it has given the greatest satisfaction hitherto in aerostatic experiments.

There were no eggs or aerostatic harvesters on the landing pad and no sign of workers or ground vehicles in the vicinity of the skyweed processing plant or the other outbuildings.

The aerostatic engineers were constrained by space—nowhere in Armada was there room for the vast hangars in which huge craft like the largest of the New Crobuzon airships—the explorers and Myrshock shuttles, seven hundred feet of metal and leather—could be made.