aerodynamicsn.

1837 Pop. Encycl. I. 45 Aerodynamics, a branch of aerology, or the higher mechanics, which treats of the powers and motion of elastic fluids.

1851 Encycl. Americana (new ed.) I. 79/1 Aërodynamics are often explained in connexion with hydrodynamics.

1868 Chambers's Encycl. I. 56 One of the most important inquiries in Aerodynamics is the resistance offered to a body moving in air, or—which is the same thing—the pressure exerted by air in motion upon a body at rest.

1916 W. A. White Mechanisms of Char. Formation iii. 40 If we keep our eyes open we will sooner or later see a berg going in the face of the wind and so apparently putting at naught all the laws of aërodynamics.

1946 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 50 436/1 The problems of aerodynamics at speeds well in excess of that of sound are in some respects much simpler than those quite near the sonic speed.

1991 Bicycling Feb. 52/1 Breakthroughs in aerodynamics will allow every fitness-minded cyclist to cut through the wind like a pencil point.

2007 Adv. Engin. Software 38 182/1 Numerical simulations are now used in fields as diverse as..sail aerodynamics, electronics and medicine.

1945 V. Stefansson Arctic Fact & Fable iii. 66 The densest fogs, sticky snow and sleety rain..tend to build up ice on wings and propellers in such a way that the aerodynamics of the plane are changed.

1952 J. K. Galbraith Amer. Capitalism i. 1 It is told that such are the aerodynamics and wing-loading of the bumblebee that, in principle, it cannot fly.

1990 C. Allen Savage Wars of Peace (1991) 58 You came down virtually vertically, which is not a good thing for the aerodynamics of a helicopter.

1997 J. Vornholt Mind Meld ix. 148 Spock was able to contribute some data on the aerodynamics of kites.