hydrostatics

1. 1.

   study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion

   Broaderfluid mechanics

Other forms of hydrostatics

plural

hydrostaticses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hydrostatics

What does hydrostatics mean?

hydrostatics means "study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion".

How many syllables are in hydrostatics?

hydrostatics has 4 syllables and divides as hy-dro-sta-tics under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.