phoronomics

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek a carrying, motion + a law.

Noun

phoronomics (uncountable)

1. The science of motion; kinematics.
   • 1869, Julius Ludwig Weisbach, Treatise on the mechanics of engineering and machinery:

     Several new paragraphs have been added to the analytical laws of phoronomics and aerostatics, and in hydraulics the pressure of water flowing through tubes occupies two new paragraphs […]