hydrostaticallyadv.
In accordance with, or by means of hydrostatics.
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1666 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 237 To discover Hydrostatically..the bigness of the Buble.
1771 R. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 337 The specific gravities which have been determined..hydrostatically.
?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 152 The relative weight is found by weighing it hydrostatically in water.
1875 J. Croll Climate & Time vi. 100 Hydrostatically, the ocean, considered as a mass, will then be in a state of equilibrium.
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