cindynics

Borrowed from French cindyniques + English -ics (suffix forming nouns denoting fields of knowledge or practice). Cindyniques is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κῐ́νδῡνος (kĭ́ndūnos, “danger, hazard, risk”) (probably from Pre-Greek) + French -ique (suffix forming nouns denoting fields of knowledge or practice) + -s (suffix forming plurals), and was coined by the French engineer Georges-Yves Kervern (1935–2008) in 1987, and first published in the Le Monde newspaper on 10 December 1987.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /sɪnˈdɪnɪks/

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• Hyphenation: cyn‧din‧ics

cindynics (uncountable)

1. (systems engineering) The science of risk analysis.
   • 1995, Georges-Yves Kervern, “Cindynics: The Science of Danger”, in Risk Management, volume 42, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Risk and Insurance Management Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34:

     Cindynics: The Science of Danger

   • 1996 October, Jean Pierre Medevielle, “France”, in The Fifteenth International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles: World Congress Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 13–16 May 1996, proceedings volume I, Washington, D.C.: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, →OCLC, section 2 (Government Status Reports), page 35:

     e have continued in the four directions announced in 1994: The transfer of road safety concepts to other modes of transport and vice-versa (e.g., secondary safety applied to guided transport, the introduction of cindynics and anthropotechnics in road vehicles).

   • 2020 winter, Anne Gombault, “Notre Dame is Burning: Learning from the Crisis of a Superstar Religious Monument”, in François Colbert, editor, International Journal of Arts Management, volume 22, number 2 (Special Issue: Cultural Entrepreneurship), Montreal, Que.: Carmelle and Rémi Marcoux Chair in Arts Management, École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal, Université de Montréal, in collaboration with the International Association for Arts and Cultural Management, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 90, column 1:

     Researchers in cindynics (danger science) have also brought the notion of vulnerability closer to that of "space of danger" , which is defined as a set of organizational conditions that make a system prone to break-up and disasters.

   • 2021, Guy Planchette, “Understanding Cindynics”, in Cindynics, the Science of Danger: A Wake-up Call (Mechanical Engineering and Solid Mechanics Series; 11), London: ISTE; Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 3:

     The cindynics approach therefore primarily monitors the fragility of collective activity situations, that is, the emergence of dangerous zones within an organization, thus weakening its capacity for resilience.

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• cindyniques on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
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