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rheonomy

rheonomy noun: the state of a mechanical system whose whose equations of constraints contain time as an explicit variable.

Noun

rheonomy

  1. (uncommon) The state of a mechanical system whose whose equations of constraints contain time as an explicit variable.

Origin of rheonomy

Attributed to Boltzmann. By surface analysis, rheo- + -nomy.

Words formed from rheonomy

Questions about rheonomy

What does rheonomy mean?
Rheonomy means the state of a mechanical system whose whose equations of constraints contain time as an explicit variable.
What part of speech is rheonomy?
Rheonomy is a noun.

Words near rheonomy in the dictionary

  1. rheomorphism
  2. rheomotor
  3. rheomotors
  4. rheonomic
  5. rheonomous
  6. rheonomy
  7. rheoophthalmography
  8. rheopathologic
  9. rheopathological
  10. rheopectic
  11. rheopecty

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