HYDRAULICS
\ha͡ɪdɹˈɔːlɪks], \haɪdɹˈɔːlɪks], \h_aɪ_d_ɹ_ˈɔː_l_ɪ_k_s]\
Definitions of HYDRAULICS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.
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That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.
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By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. sing. The science which treats of the motive power of fluids when in motion, an opposed to hydrostatics, which treats of their power when in equilibrium;—science or art pf utilizing the properties and powers of a fluid in motion, as in the construction of water-works, artificial fountains, &c., Hydraulic ram, a forcing pump in which the water is raised to considerable heights above the level by the momentum of a large body of water. Hydraulic press, a machine for producing an enable and powerful pressure by the expansive power of a body of water forcibly condensed into a cistern or cylinder by a pipe or tube of smaller dimensions.
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