pneumatics
Meaning of pneumatics
noun
the branch of physics or technology concerned with the mechanical properties of gases.
plural noun- an item of pneumatic equipment.
as with most conventional pneumatics, you have to cock the bolt and load a pellet into the breech by hand before each shot
early 17th century (in pneumatic (sense 2 of the adjective): from French pneumatique or Latin pneumaticus, from Greek pneumatikos, from pneuma ‘wind’, from pnein ‘breathe’.
Information about pneumatics
- It is a name.
- The singular form of pneumatics is: pneumatic.
- Languages in which pneumatics is used:
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Hyphenation of pneumatics
pneu-mat-ics
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- pneumatics is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of pneumatics
- French: pneumatique
- Spanish: neumática
- Italian: pneumatica
- Portuguese: pneumática
- German: Pneumatik
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