hydrostatic head

1. 1.

   the pressure at a given point in a liquid measured in terms of the vertical height of a column of the liquid needed to produce the same pressure

   Broaderpressure

Questions about hydrostatic head

What does hydrostatic head mean?

hydrostatic head means "the pressure at a given point in a liquid measured in terms of the vertical height of a column of the liquid needed to produce the same pressure".

Is hydrostatic head a common word?

hydrostatic head 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.