geostatic
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geostatic (not comparable)
- (civil engineering) Relating to the pressure exerted by earth or similar substance.[1]
- geostatic load
- geostatic burden
- geostatic pressure
- geostatic stress
- Based on a model in which the earth does not move and all other motion is described relative to the earth's fixed position.
- 1983, John Earman, Testing Scientific Theories, page 257:
- In contrast, the moon, since it shares the earth's heliocentric motion, does not have a component of its geostatic motion that mirrors the earth's orbit and thereby yields retrogression, as does the epicycle of a superior planet.
- 1996, Hugh Thurston, Early Astronomy, page 206:
- If we make a scale model in a flat box of a geostatic solar system , driven perhaps by an electric motor , place it on a smooth table , and hold the sun still, allowing the box to slide around on the table, we obtain a heliostatic system.
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- ^ “geostatic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.