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Study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion
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hydrostatics
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mechanics \Me*chan"ics\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]canique.] That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies. Note: That part of mechanics which considers the action of forces in producing rest or equilibrium is ...
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n. study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion
Wiktionary
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alt. (context physics English) The scientific study of fluids at rest, especially when under pressure. n. (context physics English) The scientific study of fluids at rest, especially when under pressure.
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Fluid statics or hydrostatics is the branch of fluid mechanics that studies incompressible fluids at rest. It encompasses the study of the conditions under which fluids are at rest in stable equilibrium as opposed to fluid dynamics , the study of fluids ...
Usage examples of hydrostatics.
By somehow inducing his brother to do much of his work, he was able to pass many quiet evenings in the university library teaching himself physics, mechanics, astronomy, hydrostatics, and the other fashionable sciences of the day, and gradually began to produce a string of papers, with a particular emphasis on the motions of Earth and their effect on climate.
It was a long dry haul, the bedding straw crunching monotonously under them, she constantly shifting to more comfortable positions as he angrily pressed his weight into her, finally a draining that was more hydrostatics than passion which left him jumpy rather than satisfied.
I suppose he was going to study hydrostatics, and he found himself under the necessity of practising hydraulics.
He goes on sitting quietly in his arm-chair and reading his Hydrostatics, while I--!
These are Mechanics, Statics, Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, Navigation, Astronomy, Geography, Optics, Pneumatics, Acoustics.