plural of hydrostat

In a hydrostatic manner / With regard to hydrostatics

The condition of being hydrostatic.

A mechanism that regulates the amount of water in a boiler. / (biology) A muscle tissue, composed mostly of water, that maintains a constant volume during contraction.

Alternative form of hydrostatic

(physics) Of or relating to hydrostatics. / Of or relating to fluids, especially to the pressure that they exert or transmit.

(physics) The scientific study of fluids at rest, especially when under pressure.

The pressure equivalent to that exerted on a surface by a column of water of a given height.

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.

(physics) The state in which a solid or liquid body has relaxed into the shape that it would have if it were a calm (equilibrium) liquid. Mathematically, this means a sphere if it is not distorted by another body and is not rotating, but an oblate or scalene ellipsoid if rotating moderately, and piriform if rotating beyond the ellipsoidal limit. When in contact with another object, such as oil drops on or in water, other shapes occur.