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- Equilibrium - n. - Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.
- Equilibrium - n. - A level position; a just poise or balance in respect to an object, so that it remains firm; equipoise; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body.
- Equilibrium - n. - A balancing of the mind between motives or reasons, with consequent indecision and doubt.
- Equilibriums - pl. - of Equilibrium
- Electricity - n. - A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause.
- Hydromechanics - n. - That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.
- Hemastatics - n. - Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
- Vibration - n. - A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
- Equilibrium - n. - A level position; a just poise or balance in respect to an object, so that it remains firm; equipoise; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body.
- Hydrostatical - a. - Of or relating to hydrostatics; pertaining to, or in accordance with, the principles of the equilibrium of fluids.
- Aerostatics - n. - The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aeronautics.
- Tension - a. - The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.
- Poise - n. - To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.
- Hydrostatics - n. - The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.
- Libration point - n. - any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body.