PASCAL'S LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pascal's law mean? 

• PASCAL'S LAW (noun)
  The noun PASCAL'S LAW has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PASCAL'S LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASCAL'S LAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Pascal's law; Pascal's law of fluid pressures

Context example:

the hydraulic press is an application of Pascal's law

Hypernyms ("Pascal's law" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)