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hydromechanics|ˌhaɪdrəʊmɪˈkænɪks|
[f. hydro- a + mechanics.]
The mechanics of liquids; hydrodynamics (in its wider sense); esp. in relation to its application to mechanical contrivances.
1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 94 Hydro-Mechanics, as Instruments to illustrate the Motion and Impinging Force of Waves, &c. 1884Science 18 Jan. 78/2 The important place which..hydromechanics has occupied in modern mathematical physics since the labors of Helmholtz, Maxwell, and Thomson, in reducing the mathematical treatment of electricity and magnetism to that of the motion of incompressible fluids.
So hydromeˈchanical a., of or pertaining to hydromechanics; relating to the employment of water in mechanical contrivances.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 293 A hydro-mechanical engine, whereby a weight amounting to 2304 tons can be raised by a simple lever, through equal space, in much less time than could be done by any apparatus constructed on the known principles of mechanics. 1881Athenæum 5 Mar. 339/1 Dr. O. J. Lodge showed two hydromechanical analogies of electricity. |