ergonal
English
Etymology
From ergon "work" plus -al "pertaining to", in analogy to thermal "pertaining to heat", coined in the translation of Rudolf Clausius' phrase Wärme- und Werkinhalt (1865) as "thermal and ergonal content" by John Tyndall (1867, p. 357).
Adjective
ergonal (comparative more ergonal, superlative most ergonal)
- (thermodynamics) pertaining to mechanical work
Antonyms
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