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Matt Whiting

wrote:

A fluid can transmit force without flow in the conventional sense.
That is the basis for hydraulics.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "conventional sense."

Nothing can transmit a force without some deflection. Some molecules in
the fluid have to move in order to generate a force and typically
movement of a fluid, however minute, is flow.

Matt