Hydraulics Synonyms

hī-drôlĭks
Study of the mechanics of fluids
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. laws of the motion of water
  2. science of the movement of liquids
  3. science of liquids in motion
  4. hydrodynamics
  5. hydrostatics
  6. hydrokinetics
  7. hydromechanics
  8. hydrography
  9. fluid-mechanics
  10. hydrology
  11. fluviology
  12. hydrometry
  13. pegology

Words Related to Hydraulics

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. science
  2. hydraulic
  3. turbomachinery
  4. Thermofluids

Hydraulics Sentence Examples

  • The LEG has been studying overland flow hydraulics and soil erosion for 25 years.

  • The practical application of hydromechanics forms the province of hydraulics.

  • The practical problems of fluid motion, which are amenable to mathematical analysis when viscosity is taken into account, are excluded from treatment here, as constituting a separate branch called "hydraulics" (q.v.).

  • The branch of hydrodynamics which discusses wave motion in a liquid or gas is given now in the articles Sound and Wave; while the influence of viscosity is considered under Hydraulics.

  • Abbott, produced in 1861 a valuable Report on the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River.

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