ceraunics

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English

Etymology

Ancient Greek, meaning thunder and lightning.

Noun

ceraunics (uncountable)

  1. (dated, rare, physics) The branch of physics that deals with heat and electricity.
    • 1842, Roswell Park, Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge:
      We would propose the name of Ceraunics, for that branch of Natural Philosophy, which relates to the effects of heat and electricity; commonly associated in nature, and together forming one great division of science .

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ceraunics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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