hydrostatic_head has definitions from the field of physics
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[ noun ] (physics) 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

Used in print

(1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)

A hydrostatic_head correction has been neither necessary nor applicable in the determination of vapor_pressures or temperatures for the bulk liquid helium .

Related terms

pressure

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