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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The science which treats of the weight, pressure, and equilibrium of air and other elastic fluids, and of the equilibrium of bodies sustained in them.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aëronautics.

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