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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In mech., elect., etc., relating to or used in the transmission of power from or to a distance.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Relating to a system for transmitting power by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “This shaft is connected with the cylinder, A, through the intermedium of cross bars, D, and transmits thereto a rapid rotary motion, which is received at the upper part from a telodynamic wire that passes through the channel of the horizontal pulley, P.”

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885

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  • Telofy Oh, thanks for the floral link. (Here my reciprocation: ❀)

    I’m trying to think of hypothetical situations in which it could be usefully applied. What about the (for me quite conceivable) one in which you have just sat down with a few friends around a table, taken out your laptop, and are absent-mindedly pulling an Ethernet cable over to you, telodynamically affecting a distant coffee cup? Jul 21, 2010

  • hernesheir Spread the wonderful news on your 4G telofyphone, frogapplause!
    Jul 21, 2010

  • frogapplause telofydynamic! Jul 21, 2010

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