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energetics

American  
[en-er-jet-iks] / ˌɛn ərˈdʒɛt ɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. the branch of physics that deals with energy.


energetics British  
/ ˌɛnəˈdʒɛtɪks /

noun

  1. (functioning as singular) the branch of science concerned with energy and its transformations

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Origin of energetics

First recorded in 1850–55; see origin at energetic, -ics

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In a speech on Wednesday, Healey will confirm plans to restart the production of energetics - explosives, pyrotechnics and propellants - in the UK.

From BBC Nov. 18, 2025

Its adjusted operating margin, meanwhile, should rise to 14.7% from 14.2% in fiscal 2024, after Chemring’s energetics business performed better than expected, it added.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 10, 2025

Over six months the researchers made 60,000 behavioural observations of the bumblebees, allowing them to precisely estimate bumblebee foraging energetics.

From Science Daily Oct. 24, 2023

"This relatively modest investment for energetics is a meaningful and important initiative," said Tom Karako, a weapons expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

From Reuters Aug. 2, 2023

The exponent of energetics, like the naive animistic thinker, attributes to nature a power like that which he feels welling up within himself.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

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