English Explanatory Dictionary

ergonal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. pertaining to mechanical work

Word forms

ergonal more ergonal most ergonal

Etymology

From ergon (“work”) + -al (“pertaining to”), in analogy to thermal (“pertaining to heat”), coined by John Tyndall as "thermal and ergonal content" (1867, p. 357) in the translation of Rudolf Clausius' phrase Wärme- und Werkinhalt (1865).

Antonyms

thermal

Related words

ergal ergon energy entropy
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