aerostatics

aerostatics
/air'euh stat"iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.)
1. the branch of statics that deals with gases in equilibrium and with gases and bodies in the gases in equilibrium with one another. Cf. aerodynamics.
2. the science of lighter-than-air aircraft.
[1745-55; see AEROSTATIC, -ICS]

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