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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

Etymology

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

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