aerostaticadj.

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. ix. 257 The evidence of Aerostatick and Hydrostatick Experiments.

1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 127 By that determination common air would not be even 700 times lighter than water.., which contradicts all barometrical and aerostatic experiments.

1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. Notes 83 Which [air] could not be thus accumulated..by any aerostatic laws at present known.

1918 Sci. Monthly Feb. 176 The master himself died without comprehending the law of aerostatic pressure.

1984 D. Hill Hist. Engin. Classical & Medieval Times xi. 205 The brothers may be said to have exhausted the possibilities of obtaining results by contriving small variations in aerostatic and hydrostatic pressures.

2002 E. Volkman Sci. goes to War vi. 139 The airship remained fundamentally flawed as a military weapon... It was aerostatic—its weight was entirely supported by the buoyancy of the helium—and that meant the bombload was severely limited.

2007 Internat. Jrnl. Machine Tools & Manuf. 47 1053/1 Non-contact bearings, such as hydrostatic or aerostatic bearings, are usually adopted for ultra-precision guideways.

1783 B. Franklin Let. 30 Aug. (1931) 89 On Wednesday the 27th instant, the new aerostatic experiment, invented by Messrs. Mongolfier of Annonay was repeated by Mr. Charles.

1783 (title) The air balloon: or a treatise on the aerostatic globe lately invented by Mons. Montgolfier.

1785 T. Cavallo Hist. & Pract. Aerostation Pref. Thus the aerostat, or the aerostatic machine, is the general appellation of the flying instruments.

1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 255 Hydrogene gas is..well fitted for aerostatic purposes.

1849 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (ed. 8) xxxv. 381 The observations of MM. Biot and Gay Lussac during their aerostatic expedition.

1865 C. H. Turnor Astra Castra vii. 258 The balloon..will be employed in various works of aerostatic photography.

1870 tr. J. Verne Five Weeks in Balloon ii. 11 The production of this gas is easy, and it has always given the most satisfactory results in all aerostatic experiences.

1988 P. O'Brian Let. of Marque vii. 216 From the beginning they had an aerostatic corps.

2003 D. M. Glantz Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945 App. 378 12th Aerostatic Balloon Battalion.

1828 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxv. 591 A celebrated French writer seems to think their origin and structure aerostatic.

1913 Science 9 May 715/1 Wachtl and Kornauth believed that the aerostatic bristles [of first-stage gipsy moth larvae] presented a collection of balloons which function as an aeronautic apparatus.

1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) iv. 115 May-flies take no food as imagines: the alimentary canal remains in a thin-walled condition and is used for taking in air, the mid-intestine acting as an aerostatic organ.