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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STATICS, n. [L., Gr.]
1. That branch of mechanics which treats of bodies at rest. Dynamics treats of bodies in motion.
2. In medicine, a kind of epileptics, or persons seized with epilepsies.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the branch of mechanics concerned with forces in equilibrium

Merriam Webster's

noun plural but singular or plural in construction Date: 1692 mechanics dealing with the relations of forces that produce equilibrium among material bodies

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) 1 the science of bodies at rest or of forces in equilibrium (opp. DYNAMICS). 2 = STATIC. Etymology: STATIC n. in the same senses + -ICS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Statics Stat"ics, n. [Cf. F. statique, Gr. ? the art of weighing, fr. ?. See Static.] That branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them; -- distinguished from dynamics. Social statics, the study of the conditions which concern the existence and permanence of the social state.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mechanics Me*chan"ics, n. [Cf. F. m['e]canique.] That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies. Note: That part of mechanics which considers the action of forces in producing rest or equilibrium is called statics; that which relates to such action in producing motion is called dynamics. The term mechanics includes the action of forces on all bodies, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous. It is sometimes, however, and formerly was often, used distinctively of solid bodies only: The mechanics of liquid bodies is called also hydrostatics, or hydrodynamics, according as the laws of rest or of motion are considered. The mechanics of gaseous bodies is called also pneumatics. The mechanics of fluids in motion, with special reference to the methods of obtaining from them useful results, constitutes hydraulics. Animal mechanics (Physiol.), that portion of physiology which has for its object the investigation of the laws of equilibrium and motion in the animal body. The most important mechanical principle is that of the lever, the bones forming the arms of the levers, the contractile muscles the power, the joints the fulcra or points of support, while the weight of the body or of the individual limbs constitutes the weight or resistance. Applied mechanics, the principles of abstract mechanics applied to human art; also, the practical application of the laws of matter and motion to the construction of machines and structures of all kinds.

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