hydrostatics
noun
hydrostatics is a noun meaning “The scientific study of fluids at rest, especially when under pressure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-S-T-A-T-I-C-S, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hydrostatics mean?
noun
- 1
The scientific study of fluids at rest, especially when under pressure.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydrostatics
- hydrostaticks
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrostatics?
Hydrostatics appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does hydrostatics come from?
From hydro- + statics.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).