Equilibrium - Law Dictionary Search Results
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The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium...
Phase rule
A generalization with regard to systems of chemical equilibrium discovered by Prof J Willard Gibbs It may be stated thus The degree of variableness number of degrees of freedom of a system is equal to the number of components minus the number of phases plus two Thus if the components be salt and water and the phases salt ice saturated solution and vapor the system is invariant that is there is only one set of conditions under which these four phases can exist in equilibrium If only three phases be considered the system is univariant that is the fixing of one condition as temperature determines the others...
balanced
being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium opposite of unbalanced...
Biome
a specific type of complex ecological community characterized by specific environmental conditions and a distinctive group of plants and animals maintained in a relatively stable equilibrium such as a rain forest biome or prairie biome...
Equation
A making equal equal division equality equilibrium...
Equilibrium
Equality of weight or force an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces...
Equipoise
Equality of weight or force hence equilibrium a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced and hence equal state of being equally balanced said of moral political or social interests or forces...
Hemastatics
Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels...
Hydromechanics
That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion...
Hydrostatic
Of or relating to hydrostatics pertaining to or in accordance with the principles of the equilibrium of fluids...
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