Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The branch of biology that deals with the structure and function of organs.
  • noun The branch of musicology that deals with musical instruments and their construction, acoustic properties, classification, history, and broader cultural context.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The science, history, and mechanics of the pipe-organ.
  • noun A branch of biology which treats in particular of the different organs of animals and plants with reference to structure and function.
  • noun Phrenology.
  • noun The study of structure or organization.
  • noun In music, the science of musical instruments.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure.
  • noun That branch of biology which treats, in particular, of the organs of animals and plants. See Morphology.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biology the study of the organs of plants and animals
  • noun the study of musical instruments in relation to history, culture, and construction.

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Examples

  • He gave his version of organology a new name—phrenology—and took his show on the road, playing to even fuller houses than Gall had, not as a scientist, however, but as an entertainer.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • In 1695, James Talbot, the scholar to whom modern organology owes so much, describes the tuning of the angélique.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

  • Josephine Yannacopoulou, 30, a PhD student of medieval organology, says she was "hijacked" by the instrument while researching her thesis on an ancient Mexican dance, which transferred to France in medieval times and became the formal "gigue", performed at court in the ballet style.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Josephine Yannacopoulou, 30, a PhD student of medieval organology, says she was "hijacked" by the instrument while researching her thesis on an ancient Mexican dance, which transferred to France in medieval times and became the formal "gigue", performed at court in the ballet style.

    Instrument lost for 700 years finds a voice again 2007

  • The chick is used for the primary relations of the systems to one another; and this is followed by the study of pig embryos, where each system is taken up separately and the organology and histogenesis of its parts are studied.

    University of Virginia Record 1916

  • The chick is used for the primary relations of the systems to one another; and this is followed by the study of pig embryos, where each system is taken up separately and the organology and histogenesis of its parts are studied.

    University of Virginia Record 1915

  • The chick is used for the primary relations of the systems to one another; and this is followed by the study of pig embryos, where each system is taken up separately and the organology and histogenesis of its parts are studied.

    University of Virginia Record 1912

  • But where he set his stamp has been upon style; style in its widest sense, not merely on the grammar and mechanism of writing, but on what De Quincey described as its _organology_; style, that is to say, in its relation to ideas and feelings, its commerce with thought, and its reaction on what one may call the temper or conscience of the intellect.

    Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay John Morley 1880

  • Of course no intelligent person supposes the psychological maps and busts of the organs to be representations of the brain, or anything more than approximations to the true interior organology, which, however, do not lead to any great error, as adjacent portions of convolutions have very analogous functions.

    Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 1856

  • If we thus go through the catalogue of psychic powers or qualities, we observe finally that the organs are grouped as follows; and this grouping should be impressed upon the memory, as it is easily learned, and serves as a basis for the further study of organology.

    Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856

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