hydrostatic paradox
hydrostatic paradox · hydrostatic paradoxes
The proposition in hydrostatics that any quantity of water, however small, may be made…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.
Meaning
1 sensesThe 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.
Forms
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