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adj
pertaining to mechanical work
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, thermodynamics
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History
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).
