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ergonal

ergonal adjective: pertaining to mechanical work.

Adjective

ergonal (comparative more ergonal, superlative most ergonal)

  1. pertaining to mechanical work

Antonyms of ergonal

Forms of ergonal

comparativemore ergonal
superlativemost ergonal

Origin of ergonal

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).

Questions about ergonal

What does ergonal mean?
Ergonal means pertaining to mechanical work.
What part of speech is ergonal?
Ergonal is an adjective.

Words near ergonal in the dictionary

  1. ergometries
  2. ergometrine
  3. ergometry
  4. ergomorphic
  5. ergon
  6. ergonal
  7. ergonic
  8. ergonometric
  9. ergonomic
  10. ergonomical
  11. ergonomically

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