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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3 words match “NONELASTIC”

NONELASTIC a.
Not having elasticity.
HYDRODYNAMICS n.
lates to fluids, or, as usually limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action of nonelastic fluids, whether as investigated mathematically, or by observation and experiment; the principles of dynamics, as applied to water and other fluids.
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.