HYDROSTATIC HEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrostatic head mean? 

• HYDROSTATIC HEAD (noun)
  The noun HYDROSTATIC HEAD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HYDROSTATIC HEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROSTATIC HEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("hydrostatic head" is a kind of...):

force per unit area; pressure; pressure level (the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit))