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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of natural philosophy which investigates the laws and describes the phenomena of heat and electricity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That branch of physics which treats of heat and electricity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated, rare, physics The
branch ofphysics that deals withheat andelectricity .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek, meaning thunder and lightning.
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