hydrostatic
- a relating to fluids at rest or to the pressures they exert or transmit
hydrostatic pressure
- Then she was fitted with six Sofar charges with hydrostatic fuses set to shiver her bulkheads automatically under the pressure of 4,000 ft.
- The bulkhead below the 600-kw generator bulged from hydrostatic pressure and quietly let go.
- A five-pound bomb, tossed into the water by the survivor, explodes under hydrostatic pressure 3,000 to 4,000 feet under sea.