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hydrostatics|haɪdrəʊˈstætɪks|
[In form pl. of hydrostatic, in conformity with other names of sciences in -ics, L. -ica, Gr. -ικά pl. and -ική sing. Cf. statics. In F. hydrostatique (1695 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
That department of Physics which treats of the pressure and equilibrium of liquids at rest; the statics of liquids: a branch of Hydrodynamics in the wider sense.
1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxxiv. 258 Those that are conversant in the Hydrostaticks. 1753Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 75 In the case of the denser fluids being nearer to the center, as hydrostatics require. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 74 Archimedes..solved the principal problem of Hydrostatics, or the statics of Fluids; namely the conditions of the floating of bodies. 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. vii. 337 It is also to Boyle, more than to any other Englishman, that we owe the science of hydrostatics in the state in which we now possess it. |