phoronomics

phoronomics

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek a carrying, motion + a law.

Noun

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 […]