different between hydrostatic vs artesian

English

Alternative forms

• hydrostatick (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?d????stæt?k/

Etymology

hydro- +? static

Adjective

hydrostatic (not comparable)

1. (physics) Of or relating to hydrostatics.
2. Of or relating to fluids, especially to the pressure that they exert or transmit.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• static

See also

• hydrodynamic

References

• “hydrostatic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

From French puits artésien (“artesian well”), from the former province of Artois, where the technique of artesian wells was elaborated by monks in the 12th century.The place name is from Old French Arteis, from Atrebates, a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul, from Proto-Celtic *ad-treb-a-t-es (“inhabitants”), from *treb? (“home, building”); see also Middle Breton treff (“city”), Welsh tref (“town”), and Old Irish treb (“farm, building”) – all from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“settlement”) (same source as Old English þorp (“village”), Lithuanian troba (“house”), and Occitan trevar (“to live in a village or house”)). See also Old Irish aittrebaid (“inhabitant”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???ti??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ti???n/
• Hyphenation: ar?te?sian

Adjective

artesian (not comparable)

1. (of a water supply) Rising to the surface under its own hydrostatic pressure.

Derived terms

• artesian well
• artesian bore

Translations

Anagrams

• Erastian, antisera, arsinate, ratanies, resinata, santeria, santería