hydrostatic paradox

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• n. The proposition in hydrostatics that any quantity of water, however small, may be made to counterbalance any weight, however great; or the law of the equality of pressure of fluids in all directions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• adj. the proposition in hydrostatics that any quantity of water, however small, may be made to counterbalance any weight, however great; or the law of the equality of pressure of fluids in all directions.
• n. See under Hydrostatic.