hydrostatic

Examples

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• Corrosion can also weaken cast iron pipe, making it vulnerable to breaking from hydrostatic water pressure.

  Academic text (1998)

• To convert the hydrostatic tidal energy into electricity, tidal water mills are deployed.

  Academic text (2009)

• And so you see that principle of hydrostatic balance there as well.

• Remembering that hydrostatic work had the wrong sign.

• And this balance goes by the technical name hydrostatic equilibrium.

• Normally, we would use hydrostatic measurements to acquire this knowledge.

  Academic text (2006)

• Now when everything comes to a rest, because of gravity and pressure density, this system is now in what we call hydrostatic equilibrium.

• The vertical orientation of the insert helped to ensure equal total hydrostatic pressure on opposite faces.

  Academic text (2001)

• The 454-ton machine stayed on course as hydrostatic pressure of up to 10 bars pushed against its shell.

  Academic text (1993)

• Therefore, the weight of the column of ballast mixture will exert a hydrostatic head pressure within the ballast tube.

  Academic text (2003)

Antonyms

H

hydrokinetic

• Specialized

9.2

Having to do with the movement of water and the forces it makes

Compounds

H

hydrostatic head

• Specialized

8.4

The height of liquid that makes pressure at a point below it

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Etymology