Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- According to hydrostatics or to hydrostatic principles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles.
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- adverb In a
hydrostatic manner - adverb With regard to
hydrostatics
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Examples
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It's Poseidon — the god of the sea, the enemy of Odysseus, the earth-shaker — as a hydrostatically pressurized steel platform against a mechanomorphosized Aeolus, the ruler of the winds.
Poseidon vs. Aeolus 2007
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It's Poseidon — the god of the sea, the enemy of Odysseus, the earth-shaker — as a hydrostatically pressurized steel platform against a mechanomorphosized Aeolus, the ruler of the winds.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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The nucleus distributes pressure hydrostatically or equally in all directions.
Hold it! Edward J. Jackwski 1995
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The nucleus distributes pressure hydrostatically or equally in all directions.
Hold it! Edward J. Jackwski 1995
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The nucleus distributes pressure hydrostatically or equally in all directions.
Hold it! Edward J. Jackwski 1995
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The nucleus distributes pressure hydrostatically or equally in all directions.
Hold it! Edward J. Jackwski 1995
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Seeing, therefore, the equilibrium of the whole mass, and the consequent hydrostatic balance of the land in the sea, -- seeing also the small compressibility of the solid portions, and the great compressibility of the fluid, the inference is legitimate that the whole is hydrostatically balanced, and that our globe is a globe of water, with an intermediate shell of land, specifically lighter than the fluid in which it is suspended.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett
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And we might refer to the historical record of one of these, with all the minute particulars as positive data, imposing on us the necessity of admitting that the solid parts of the globe are hydrostatically balanced in the sea.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett
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For the rest of the day he was hydrostatically mad; nor could the commonest incident connected with the action or conveyance of water take place without his speculating on its cause and consequence.
The Voyage of Captain Popanilla Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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The lapse rate can be derived from theory for any atmosphere that is the hydrostatically stable condition with maximum vertical temperature gradient, but it is also well-known within meteorology.
RealClimate 2010
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