phoronomics

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ancient Greek a carrying, motion + a law.

Noun[edit]

phoronomics (uncountable)

  1. The science of motion; kinematics.
    • 1869, Julius Ludwig Weisbach, Treatise on the mechanics of engineering and machinery:
      Several new paragraphs have been added to the analytical laws of phoronomics and aerostatics, and in hydraulics the pressure of water flowing through tubes occupies two new paragraphs […]
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