Pascal's law of fluid pressures

Pascal's law of fluid pressures
noun
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
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the hydraulic press is an application of Pascal's law

Syn: ↑Pascal's law
Hypernyms: ↑law, ↑law of nature

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