fluidics

American  

[floo-id-iks] / fluˈɪd ɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the technology dealing with the use of a flowing liquid or gas in various devices, especially controls, to perform functions usually performed by an electric current in electronic devices.

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fluidics British  

/ fluːˈɪdɪks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the study and use of systems in which the flow of fluids in tubes simulates the flow of electricity in conductors. Such systems are used in place of electronics in certain applications, such as the control of apparatus

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Other Word Forms

• fluidic adjective
• nonfluidic adjective

Etymology

Origin of fluidics

First recorded in 1960–65; fluid + -ics

Example Sentences

On Monday a team at Portland State University presented a paper, The Capillary Fluidics of Espresso, detailing a way to enjoy espresso in space in a manner similar to the one on Earth – which is to say in a cup – by replacing the role of gravity with the forces of surface tension.

From Time

If you’re really ambitious, make some logic using fluidics with a router and some Plexiglas and the nether end of a vacuum cleaner.

From Forbes

Expertise with technology and regulations  For complex hardware products that combine electronics, mechanics, optics, and fluidics, experience is critical to successful manufacturing.

From Inc

Perhaps the closest they have come to incorporating unnatural bases into a living system is an engineered bacterium reported last year by Philippe Marlière, co-founder of the microbial fluidics company Heurisko in Newark, Delaware.

From Nature