principle of liquid displacement

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   (hydrostatics) the volume of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the volume of the displaced fluid

   Broaderprinciple

   hydrostatics

Questions about principle of liquid displacement

What does principle of liquid displacement mean?

principle of liquid displacement means "(hydrostatics) the volume of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the volume of the displaced fluid".

Is principle of liquid displacement a common word?

principle of liquid displacement 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.