pascal's law of fluid pressures

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pascal's law of fluid pressures - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Pascal's law of fluid pressures
      n 1: pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force
           to be transmitted equally in all directions; the force acts
           at right angles to any surface in contact with the fluid;
           "the hydraulic press is an application of Pascal's law"
           [syn: Pascal's law, Pascal's law of fluid pressures]