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thermology|θɜːˈmɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. F. thermologie: see thermo- and -logy.]
The science of heat; that department of physics which treats of heat; thermotics.
1838tr. A. Comte in Edin. Rev. July 284 It remained only [for Comte]..to tack to Hydrodynamics the sciences of Magnetism, Electricity, Galvanism and Thermology. 1840Whewell Philos. Induct. Sc. I. p. lxxii, The science which treats of heat has hitherto had no special designation... M. Le Comte terms it Thermology (i.e. the science of heat). In the History of the Sciences, I have named it Thermotics. 1843Mill Logic ii. iv. §5 (1846) I. 246 Thus mechanics, hydrostatics, optics, acoustics, and thermology, have successively been rendered mathematical. 1858H. Spencer Ess. I. 215 Thus acoustics was arrested until thermology overtook and aided it.
Hence thermoˈlogical a., of or pertaining to thermology.
1838tr. A. Comte in Edin. Rev. July 282 The most important and precise laws of thermological phenomena are developed without the slightest enquiry into the intimate nature of heat. 1871Proctor Sun iv. 193 So high an authority in meteorological and thermological questions. |