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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.

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  1. n. 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.
  2. n. study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion
  3. 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.
  4. The branch of science which relates to the pressure andequilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; theprinciples of statics applied to water and other liquids.
  5. n. study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion