hydrostatic pressure

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hydrostatic
adjective
uk
/ˌhaɪ.drəʊˈstæt.ɪk/
us
/ˌhaɪ.droʊˈstæt̬.ɪk/
relating to fluids (= liquids or gases) that are not ...
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pressure
noun
uk
/ˈpreʃ.ər/
us
/ˈpreʃ.ɚ/
the force you produce when you ...
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In such static solutions thehydrostaticpressurein the fluid and the elastic pressure exerted by the walls of the crack are in balance.
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Relation of temperature, gas tension, andhydrostaticpressureto the formation of gas bubbles in extracorporeal oxygenated blood.
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The pressure signals of figure 2 have been superimposed on each other (taking into account the difference inhydrostaticpressure) and are shown in part.
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For incompressible materials, an additional scalarhydrostaticpressurefield is introduced into the constitutive equations.
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This arrangement was a convenient way of avoiding the presence of a largehydrostaticpressureacross the transducer which could have hindered the dynamic measurements.
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Multiple components of membrane retrieval in synaptic terminals revealed by changes inhydrostaticpressure.
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Increased production of tumor necrosis factor-alpha by glial cells exposed to simulated ischemia or elevatedhydrostaticpressureinduces apoptosis in cocultured retinal ganglion cells.
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Thus, the surroundinghydrostaticpressureis simply added to both the radial and circumferential stress-components given by this model.
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The term on the right is thehydrostaticpressureof the fluid, where is the density and g the acceleration of gravity.
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The disturbance also produces an increase in thehydrostaticpressureunder the crest proportional to the local depth of the film.
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The growth and viability of sixty-three species of marine bacteria as influenced byhydrostaticpressure.
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The probe signals have been superimposed on one another, taking into account the differences in localhydrostaticpressure.
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Water influx would thus expand the adjacent plasma membrane by increased localhydrostaticpressure, followed by actin repolymerisation to stabilise the cell membrane protrusion.
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A constant flow rate of 4-0 ml/h was maintained usinghydrostaticpressure, and 2 ml fractions were collected and assayed for the presence of inhibitory activity.
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This suggested that the interface shapes were primarily the result of a quasi-static equilibrium of elastic forces concentrated in a thin boundary layer andhydrostaticpressurein the fluid.
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Peperite is only developed at sheet margins indicating that steam explosivity was limited, perhaps by highhydrostaticpressure.
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The growth of bubbles is the result of the diffusion of gas dissolved in the magma (diffusive growth) and its decompression within the bubble whenhydrostaticpressuredecreases (decompressive growth).
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The strain energy contribution to stress components is related to the first derivatives of the geometric displacement fields, whereas thehydrostaticpressuredirectly contributes to the stress components.
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The influence ofhydrostaticpressureon the activity of these molecules has not previously been investigated, although there are two general reasons for undertaking such an investigation.
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