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hydrostatic pressure

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pressure due to weight of a fluid at rest

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hydrostatics
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gravity
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Encyclopedic overview

Hydrostatic pressure is the static pressure exerted at a point of interest by the weight of a fluid column above the point.

Background

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hydrostatic pressure” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.