Hydrostatics

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(Physics) The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.

Noun

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hydrostatics - study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion

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