单词 | hydrostatics |
释义 | hydrostaticsn. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > statics > [noun] > hydrostatics or rheostatics hydrostatics1660 hydrostasy1729 rheostatics1753 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxxiv. 258 Those that are conversant in the Hydrostaticks. 1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 75 In the case of the denser fluids being nearer to the center, as hydrostatics require. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 95 Archimedes..solved the principal problem of hydrostatics, or the statics of fluids; namely the conditions of the floating of bodies. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1660 |
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