HyperDic: pascal[s_law

English > 1 sense of the expression *Pascal's law*:
NOUN	cognition	Pascal's law, Pascal's law of fluid pressures	pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to be transmitted equally in all directions

English > *Pascal's law*: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
Meaning	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.
Synonym	Pascal's law of fluid pressures
Broader	law, law of nature	A generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
Catalan	Principi de Pascal