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Hydrostat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.

Hydrostatic [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

HYDROSTAT'IC

Hydrostatic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Relating to the science of weighing fluids, or hydrostatics.

Hydrostatic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Hydrostatical

Hydrostatical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or relating to hydrostatics; pertaining to, or in accordance with, the principles of the equilibrium of fluids.

Hydrostatically [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles.

Hydrostatically [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles.

Hydrostatician [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics.

Hydrostatics [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The science which treats of the weight, motion, and equilibriums of fluids, or of the specific gravity and other properties of fluids, particularly of water.

2. Hydrostatics is that branch of the science of hydrodynamics which treats of the properties of fluids at rest.

Hydrostatics [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.