zygology
English
Etymology
zygo- + -logy
Noun
zygology (uncountable)
- The science of fastening things together.
- 1983, J. Keri Davies, Alistair B. Duncan, Willis Pickard, Access to higher education in Scotland: Robbins twenty years on:
- It is easy to forecast that there will be greater complexity and weight of business for all the professions from Architecture to Zygology.
- 1997, New Scientist, volume 155, number 2089-2097, page 52:
- Adhesion is only one branch of zygology, the science of joining things together — other branches include welding, riveting and all forms of mechanical joining.
- 2001, Dr. Joe Schwarcz, The Genie in the Bottle:
- Quite the opposite — they're very interested in finding out how these flies defy gravity and stick to the wall, because any insight into zygology can have very important practical applications.
- 2003, Michael Neale, “Tribology in design”, in Tribology Series, volume 41:
- The technologies which underlie this basic structure are therefore, stress analysis, for the strength and rigidity of the parts, zygology for the fixed joints, and tribology for the components which experience relative motion
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