fluid mechanics

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   study of the mechanics of fluids

   Synonymshydraulics

   Broadermechanics

   Narrowerhydrostaticshydrodynamics

Questions about fluid mechanics

What does fluid mechanics mean?

fluid mechanics means "study of the mechanics of fluids".

What is another word for fluid mechanics?

Close synonyms include hydraulics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fluid mechanics a common word?

fluid mechanics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.