ergonomics

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɜː.ɡəˈnɒm.ɪks/
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• Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /ˌɝ.ɡəˈnɑ.mɪks/
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• Canada, dialectal: /ˌɝ.ɡəˈnɒm.ɪks/ of the US
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• Australian: /ˌɜː.ɡəˈnɔm.ɪks/
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• rhymes with -ɒmɪks
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• CMU ARPABET: ER2 G AH0 N AA1 M IH0 K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From ergo- (prefix indicating work) + -nomics (suffix indicating the rules of a discipline), probably modelled after Polish ergonomia (“ergonomics”) (used by Polish scientist Wojciech Jastrzębowski (1799–1882) in an 1857 article), from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + νόμος (nómos, “custom; law, ordinance”). The English word is widely regarded as having been introduced by British psychologist K. F. Hywel Murrell at a meeting at the Admiralty in London in July 1949, which led to the establishment of the Ergonomics Research Society (now The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors) on 17 September 1949.

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: ergonomia — science of the design of equipment
• Chinese Mandarin: 人體工程學 /人体工程学 (réntǐ gōngchéngxué) — science of the design of equipment
• Chinese Mandarin: 人類工程學 /人类工程学 (rénlèi gōngchéngxué) — science of the design of equipment
• Chinese Mandarin: 工效學 /工效学 (gōngxiàoxué) — science of the design of equipment
• Czech: ergonomie — science of the design of equipment
• Dutch: ergonomie — science of the design of equipment
• Esperanto: ergonomio — science of the design of equipment
• Finnish: ergonomia — science of the design of equipment
• French: ergonomie — science of the design of equipment
• Galician: ergonomía — science of the design of equipment
• Georgian: ერგონომიკა (ergonomiḳa) — science of the design of equipment
• Georgian: ერგონომია (ergonomia) — science of the design of equipment
• German: Ergonomie — science of the design of equipment
• Greek: εργονομία (ergonomía) — science of the design of equipment
• Hungarian: ergonómia — science of the design of equipment
• Icelandic: vinnuvistfræði — science of the design of equipment
• Ido: ergonomiko — science of the design of equipment
• Ido: ergonomio — science of the design of equipment
• Indonesian: ergonomi — science of the design of equipment
• Irish: eirgeanamaíocht — science of the design of equipment
• Italian: ergonomia — science of the design of equipment
• Japanese: エルゴノミクス (erugonomikusu) — science of the design of equipment
• Japanese: 人間工学 (ningen kōgaku) — science of the design of equipment
• Kazakh: эргономика (érgonomika) — science of the design of equipment
• Korean: 인간공학 (in'gan'gonghak) — science of the design of equipment
• Korean: 인체공학 (inchegonghak) — science of the design of equipment
• Northern Kurdish: ergonomî — science of the design of equipment
• Malay: ergonomik — science of the design of equipment
• Māori: mātai arotau — science of the design of equipment
• Polish: ergonomia — science of the design of equipment
• Portuguese: ergonomia — science of the design of equipment
• Romanian: ergonomie — science of the design of equipment
• Russian: эргоно́мика (ergonómika) — science of the design of equipment
• Serbo-Croatian: ergonomija — science of the design of equipment
• Slovak: ergonómia — science of the design of equipment
• Spanish: ergonomía — science of the design of equipment
• Swedish: ergonomi — science of the design of equipment
• Thai: การยศาสตร์ (gaan yásàat) — science of the design of equipment
• Ukrainian: ергоно́міка (erhonómika) — science of the design of equipment
• Vietnamese: công thái học — science of the design of equipment