HYDRAULICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydraulics mean? 

• HYDRAULICS (noun)
  The noun HYDRAULICS has 1 sense:

1. study of the mechanics of fluids

  Familiarity information: HYDRAULICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDRAULICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Study of the mechanics of fluids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

fluid mechanics; hydraulics

Hypernyms ("hydraulics" is a kind of...):

mechanics (the branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hydraulics"):

hydrostatics (study of the mechanical properties of fluids that are not in motion)

hydrodynamics; hydrokinetics (study of fluids in motion)

Derivation:

hydraulic (of or relating to the study of hydraulics)

 Context examples 

It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own province.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)