| 单词 | classical mechanics |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclassical mechanics 1. With singular or (occasionally) plural agreement: (a) the body of theoretical and practical knowledge concerned with the invention and construction of machines, the explanation of their operation, and the calculation of their efficiency; mechanical engineering; (b) the branch of applied mathematics that deals with the motion and equilibrium of bodies and the action of forces, and includes kinematics, dynamics, and statics. Now often distinguished as classical mechanics (as opposed to quantum mechanics).analytical, celestial, continuum, fluid, matrix, rational, rock, soil, statistical mechanics: see the first element. See also quantum mechanics n., wave mechanics n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > [noun] mechanics1612 the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > theories or branches of menadry1570 pure mathematics1605 mechanics1612 residuation1846 chaos theory1880 number theory1901 formalism1913 intuitionism1913 replacement theory1914 biomathematics1923 proof theory1929 finitism1935 mereology1938 combinatorics1941 cryptarithmetic1943 game theory1945 numerical analysis1946 queueing theory1951 constructivism1959 complexity1963 catastrophe theory1971 chaology1985 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > [noun] > science or knowledge of mechanicals1605 mechanics1612 1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica iv. 51 First the Mechanick Art, secondly the Instruments and meanes, thirdly the worke of the art, made by those Instruments, and meanes, are all called Mechanicks. 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. ii. 12 Astronomy handles the quantity of heavenly motions, Musick of sounds, and Mechanicks of weights and powers. 1671 R. Boyle Of Vsefulnesse Mech. Discipl. 1 in Some Consid. Vsefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. II I do not here take the Term Mechanicks in that stricter and more proper sense, wherein tis wont to be taken, when tis us'd onely to signifie the Doctrine about the Moving Powers (as the Beam, the Leaver, the Screws, and the Wedg,) and of framing Engines to multiply Force; but I here understand the word Mechanicks in a larger sense, for those Disciplines that consist of the Applications of pure Mathematicks to produce or modifie Motion in inferior Bodies. 1729 A. Motte tr. I. Newton Math. Princ. Nat. Philos. I. p. vii The ancients considered Mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives II. 375 The first that turned their thoughts to mechanics..were Eudoxus and Archytas. 1828 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) II. 139 Mechanics is the science of equilibrium and of motion. 1876 C. P. Mason Eng. Gram. (ed. 21) 117 (To borrow a metaphor from mechanics) the adjective is a static attribute, the verb is a dynamic attribute. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 396/1 The reaping-machine..is the most striking example of the application of mechanics to agriculture. 1933 A. W. Barton Text Bk. Heat ix. 200 Maxwell's law of distribution of velocities among the molecules follows merely from the application of the principles of classical mechanics to a system consisting of a very large number of particles. 1939 Fortune Oct. 13 (advt.) Latest additions to the Mimeograph family... Both are an engineer's idea of putting mechanics to work for a purpose. 1978 Sci. Amer. Feb. 131/3 The strict determinism of classical mechanics is abandoned in the quantum theory. 1994 P. Theroux Translating LA iii. 62 I thought it remarkable that a churchy housewife, even a New Age one,..would have this detailed knowledge of mechanics. < as lemmas |
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