Thermotics

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Noun
  1. 1
    The branch of physics that deals with the science of heat. archaic, uncountable

    "1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences, p.465, London: J.W. Parker, 1837. I employ the term Thermotics, to include all the doctrines respecting heat, which have hitherto been established on proper scientific grounds."

  2. 2
    thermodynamics archaic, uncountable

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pyrotechnicsthermodynamics

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"1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences, p.465, London: J.W. Parker, 1837. I employ the term Thermotics, to include all the doctrines respecting heat, which have hitherto been established on proper scientific grounds."

Etymology

Coined by William Whewell, 1831, along with photistics. See thermo-.

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