Word Meanings - POLYTECHNICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science of the mechanic arts.

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• MECHANICS
  That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies. Note: That part of mechanics which considers the action of forces in producing rest or equilibrium is called statics; that which relates to such action
• MECHANICIAN
  One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. Boyle.
• MECHANICAL
  1. Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical
• MECHANICALLY
  In a mechanical manner.
• MECHANICO-CHEMICAL
  Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.
• MECHANICALIZE
  To cause to become mechanical.
• MECHANIC
  1. The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction. 2. A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any
• MECHANICALNESS
  The state or quality of being mechanical.
• SCIENCE
  1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all
• TELEMECHANIC
  Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. --Tel`e*mech"a*nism , n.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
• UNSCIENCE
  Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
• CONSCIENCED
  Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.
• AEROMECHANIC
  A mechanic or mechanician expert in the art and practice of aëronautics.
• NESCIENCE
  Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.
• AEROMECHANIC; AEROMECHANICAL
  Of or pert. to aëromechanics.
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
  A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system
• INSCIENCE
  Want of knowledge; ignorance.
• CONSCIENCELESS
  Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.
• HYDROMECHANICS
  That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.
• AEROMECHANICS
  The science of equilibrium and motion of air or an aëriform fluid, including aërodynamics and aërostatics.