pneumatics

American  

[noo-mat-iks, nyoo-] / nʊˈmæt ɪks, njʊ- /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the branch of physics that deals with the mechanical properties of air and other gases.

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pneumatics British  

/ njʊˈmætɪks /

noun

1. Also called: aerometry.   pneumodynamics.  (functioning as singular) the branch of physics concerned with the mechanical properties of gases, esp air

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Etymology

Origin of pneumatics

First recorded in 1650–60; see origin at pneumatic, -ics

Example Sentences

These were the discoveries with which Philosophy opened the nineteenth century so brilliantly in the field of Pneumatics.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, from the original Greek.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

The work that remains is called Pneumatics, and so interesting a work it is as to make us doubly regret the loss of its companion volumes.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington

The laws of motion of visible and tangible, or molar, matter had been worked out to a great degree of refinement and embodied in the branches of science known as Mechanics, Hydrostatics, and Pneumatics.

From The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century by Huxley, Thomas Henry

In the Pneumatics of Hero, which compilation of inventions appeared in 225 B. C., seventy-nine illustrations are given and described of simple machines, between sixty and seventy of which are hydraulic devices.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry