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PASCAL'S LAW OF FLUID PRESSURES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pascal's law of fluid pressures mean?
• PASCAL'S LAW OF FLUID PRESSURES (noun)
The noun PASCAL'S LAW OF FLUID PRESSURES has 1 sense:
1. pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to be transmitted equally in all directions; the force acts at right angles to any surface in contact with the fluid
Familiarity information: PASCAL'S LAW OF FLUID PRESSURES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PASCAL'S LAW OF FLUID PRESSURES (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to be transmitted equally in all directions; the force acts at right angles to any surface in contact with the fluid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
Pascal's law; Pascal's law of fluid pressures
Context example:
the hydraulic press is an application of Pascal's law
Hypernyms ("Pascal's law of fluid pressures" is a kind of...):
law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)
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