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Definition of Pneumatics
1. Noun. The branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical properties of gases.
Definition of Pneumatics
1. n. That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.
Definition of Pneumatics
1. Noun. The branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical properties of gases ¹
2. Noun. (theology obsolete) The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and human beings. ¹
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Definition of Pneumatics
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Medical Definition of Pneumatics
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1. That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pneumatics
Literary usage of Pneumatics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1858)
"These are embraced under the heads of HYDROSTATICS and pneumatics, the former
division comprising the doctrine of liquids, and the latter that of aeriform ..."
2. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1858)
"These are embraced under the heads of HYDROSTATICS and pneumatics, the former
division comprising the doctrine of liquids, and the latter that of aeriform ..."
3. A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Adapted to the Use of the General Reader by Denison Olmsted (1842)
"pneumatics. CHAPTER I. OF THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AIR. 283. pneumatics is
thai branch of Mechanics which treati of the equilibrium and motion of ..."
4. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... that our philosophers have appropriated the term pneumatics to the ...
of .pneumatics. No objection occurs to us ..."
5. A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Adapted to the Use of the General Reader by Denison Olmsted (1842)
"pneumatics. CHAPTER I. OF THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AIR. 283. pneumatics is
thai branch of Mechanics which treati of the equilibrium and motion of ..."
6. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... that our philosophers have appropriated the term pneumatics to the ...
of .pneumatics. No objection occurs to us ..."
7. A School Compendium of Natural and Experimental Philosophy: With a by Richard Green Parker (1850)
"pneumatics treats of the nature, mechanical properties, and effects of air and
... Of what does pneumatics treat? 137. What is the air which we breathe ? ..."
8. A School Compendium of Natural and Experimental Philosophy: With a by Richard Green Parker (1850)
"pneumatics treats of the nature, mechanical properties, and effects of air and
... Of what does pneumatics treat? 137. What is the air which we breathe ? ..."
9. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"pneumatics. 1. THIS term is restricted, in the present habits of our language,
to that part of natural philosophy which treats of the mechanical properties ..."
10. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"pneumatics. 1. THIS term is restricted, in the present habits of our language,
to that part of natural philosophy which treats of the mechanical properties ..."
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