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dynamical, a.|daɪ-, dɪˈnæmɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to the science of dynamics.
1812–16Playfair Nat. Phil. (1819) II. 271 An elementary exposition of the dynamical principles employed in these investigations. 1833Herschel Astron. viii. 266 As an abstract dynamical proposition. 1869Huxley in Sci. Opinion 28 Apr. 486/3 Strict deductions from admitted dynamical principles.
2. Of or pertaining to force or mechanical power: = dynamic a. 1, 2.
dynamical electricity, current electricity, as exhibited in the galvanic battery, and in electromotive appliances. d. metamorphism: see prec. 9.
1828Webster, Dynamical, pertaining to strength or power. 1843–46Grove Corr. Phys. Forces (ed. 1) 15 Nor do we by any of our ordinary methods test heat in any other way than by its purely dynamical action. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) II. vi. xi. 138 In this purely dynamical action consists the production of sound. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea ii. §108 The dynamical forces which are expressed by the Gulf Stream. 1862Sir H. Holland Ess. i. 14 On the mutual convertibility of heat and dynamical force. 1880Haughton Phys. Geog. iii. 96 In a permanent condition of dynamical equilibrium. 1881Sir W. Thomson in Nature No. 619. 435 High potential..is the essential for good dynamical economy in the electric transmission of power. 1889Dynamical metamorphism [see dynamometamorphism 2].
b. transf. Cf. dynamic a. 3 b.
1870S. H. Hodgson The. Practice ii. iv. §93. 11 The distinction between the statical and dynamical mode of perception gives the distinction between noun and verb. [See also s.v. dynamically.]
3. Applied to inspiration conceived as an endowing with divine power, in opposition to a ‘mechanical’ inspiration in which the medium is the mere tool or instrument of the Deity.
1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. xvi. 60 The method in which it [Divine Influence] has been exerted on man has been dynamical rather than merely mechanical. 1846Hare Mission Comf. (1850) 299 Andrewes..was disposed to look at the work of the Spirit rather as mechanical, than as dynamical or organical. 1856J. Macnaught Doctrine Inspir. vi. (1857) 6 If a living man..be ‘moved by the Spirit’, it can, assuredly, only be by a strengthening, or enlarging, or adding to the number of the faculties of that living man—that is, by ‘dynamical’ inspiration.
4. Of or pertaining to dynamism (sense 1).
1845Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. 579/1 That high form of dynamical philosophy which was contained in the poems of Empedocles of Agrigentum. 1850― Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 85 The natural philosophers of Greece are divided into the dynamical and mechanical—Thales being assigned to the former class.
5. Med. Functional: = dynamic 5 a.
1861T. J. Graham Pract. Med. 19 Another element of disease in the dynamical condition of a part, appears to be an alteration in the relation between the tissues and the blood. |