单词 | osmics |
释义 | osmicsn. With singular agreement. The branch of science concerned with odours and the sense of smell. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] > study or measurement of osphresiology1842 osmology1857 odorimetry1898 olfactometry1898 vapography1898 osmics1922 olfactronics1964 1922 J. H. Kenneth Osmics 3 Osmics..is a convenient term to connote that area of the field of science which is concerned with smell... Briefly, osmics is the science of the stimuli, organs, and the sense of smell. 1950 L. H. Beck in O. Glasser Med. Physics II. (title) Osmics: theory and problems related to the initial events in olfaction. 1965 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 30 635/1 It must surely be conceded that the science of osmics has come of age with the recognition of its modulating psychophysical principle as being related to the sizes and shapes of volatile molecules. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1922 |
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