ergonal
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ergon (“work”) + -al (“pertaining to”), in analogy to thermal (“pertaining to heat”), coined by John Tyndall as "thermal and ergonal content" (1867, p. 357) in the translation of Rudolf Clausius' phrase Wärme- und Werkinhalt (1865).
Adjective
[edit]ergonal (comparative more ergonal, superlative most ergonal)
- (thermodynamics) pertaining to mechanical work