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HYDROSTATIC HEAD
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I. (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))
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