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Noun: Pascal's law of fluid pressures
  1. 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
    "the hydraulic press is an application of Pascal's law of fluid pressures";
    - Pascal's law

Type of: law, law of nature