Meanings
nounphoronomics (uncountable)
- uncountableThe science of motion; kinematics.
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 […]
1869, Julius Ludwig Weisbach, Treatise on the mechanics of engineering and machinery
Origin
Ancient Greek a carrying, motion + a law.
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