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phoronomy Physics.|fɒˈrɒnəmɪ| [ad. mod.L. phoronomia (Hermann 1716) = Ger., F. phoronomie, f. Gr. ϕορά motion (f. ϕέρ-ειν to bear, carry) + -nomia: cf. astronomia astronomy.] The purely geometrical theory of motion; the branch of mechanics that treats of the motion of bodies considered absolutely; kinematics.
[1716Hermann (title) Phoronomia, seu de Viribus et Motibus Corporum solidorum et liquidorum.] 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. xii. 489 Matter quantitatively defined, is the moveable in space. In this point of view it is the object of a science we may call ‘Phoronomy’. 1892Nature 24 Mar. 486/2 The letter of Dr. Besant..suggests strong reasons for employing the word phoronomy in the place of kinematics. Hence phoroˈnomic a., of or belonging to phoronomy, kinematic; phoroˈnomics n. = phoronomy; phoroˈnomically adv., in respect of or in relation to phoronomy; kinematically.
1842Brande Dict. Sc. etc., Phoronomia or Phoronomics, a term sometimes used to denote the science of motion. 1858Mayne Expos. Lex. 946/2 Phoronomic. 1893McCormack tr. Mach's Sc. Mechanics 166 Phoronomically similar structures. |