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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The principle stating that external static pressure exerted on a confined fluid is distributed evenly throughout the fluid.
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- noun physics The law that states that a
confined fluid transmits externally applied pressure uniformly in alldirections ; the basis ofhydraulics .
Etymologies
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[After Blaise Pascal.]
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From Blaise Pascal, French scientist and philosopher
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