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n. The pressure equivalent to that exerted on a surface by a column of water of a given height.
Usage examples of "hydrostatic pressure".
He thought of the way the blood had come spraying from Deke's mouth in an almost solid rope, the way Deke's eyes had bugged out as if on springs as hemorrhages caused by hydrostatic pressure pulped his brain.
The centrifuge's arm couldn't have been much shorter than it was, or that difference would rise above a few percent, and cause damaging hydrostatic pressure differences in her tissues.
The centrifuge's arm couldn't have been much shorter than it was, or that difference would rise above a few per cent, and cause damaging hydrostatic pressure differences in her tissues.
The rock screeched in agony as hydrostatic pressure began to close the passage.
And hydrostatic pressure had bloated his face to an unrecognizable idiocy.
When the lead projectile with its hollowpoint construction and distinctive raised central post enters the body, hydrostatic pressure forces the peripheral rim to flare like the petals of a flower.
Roberts had fallen back into the small boat in which he'd been sitting, most of the side of his head blown away above the right eyebrow and the eye itself exploded out of the socket by some freak of hydrostatic pressure.