单词 | geostatics |
释义 | geostaticsn. rare. Now historical. Chiefly with singular agreement. The statics of buildings and of solid objects generally. Cf. hydrostatics n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > statics > [noun] > specific branch geostatics1786 stereostatics1830 1786 C. Vallancey Vindic. Anc. Hist. Ireland xi. 478 Geostatics seems to have been the peculiar study of the architect in these temples. 1839 United Services Mag. iii. 508 The statics and mechanics of solid and fluid bodies, to the extent usual in lectures, namely—geostatics and hydrostatics, geomechanics and hydromechanics. 1948 M. Quigley Magic Shadows iv. 40 He [sc. Giovanni Battista Benedetti] influenced the great Descartes in geostatics, studying the laws of inertia and making the contribution of the path taken by a body going off from a revolving circle. 2001 Isis 92 669 Agnesi applauded the discovery of the laws of motion and illustrated some of their applications in ballistics, hydrostatics, and geostatics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1786 |
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