trochilics
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
trochilics (uncountable)
- The science of rotary motion, or work done with wheels.
- 1921, Dornford Yates, Anthony Lyveden:
- For setting wheels within wheels, you cannot match Fortune. After all, she has made trochilics her hobby through all the ages.
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
- But for the better conceiving of this invention, it is requisite that we rightly understand some principles in trochilics, or the art of wheel-instruments
References edit
“trochilics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.