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单词 mechanurgy
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mechanurgyn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: mechano- comb. form, -urgy comb. form.
Etymology: < mechano- comb. form + -urgy comb. form, perhaps after metallurgy n., dramaturgy n., etc., or Hellenistic Greek μηχανουργία the art of constructing engines of war. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (me·kănɒ̄ɹdʒi) /ˈmɛkənɜːdʒɪ/.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
The branch of mechanics that deals with moving machines.
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1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Mechanurgy, that branch of science which treats of moving machines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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