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Hydrostatics

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Noun
  1. 1
    The scientific study of fluids at rest, especially when under pressure. uncountable

    "1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 30, "to estimate his skill in hydrostatistics or astronomy; ...""

  2. 2
    study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion wordnet

Etymology

From hydro- + statics.

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