Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In mech., elect., etc., relating to or used in the transmission of power from or to a distance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
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- adjective Relating to a system for
transmitting power by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving groovedpulleys of large diameter.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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This shaft is connected with the cylinder, A, through the intermedium of cross bars, D, and transmits thereto a rapid rotary motion, which is received at the upper part from a telodynamic wire that passes through the channel of the horizontal pulley, P.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 Various
frogapplause commented on the word telodynamic
telofydynamic!
July 21, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word telodynamic
Spread the wonderful news on your 4G telofyphone, frogapplause!
July 21, 2010
Telofy commented on the word telodynamic
Oh, thanks for the floral link. (Here my reciprocation: ā)
Iām trying to think of hypothetical situations in which it could be usefully applied. What about the (for me quite conceivable) one in which you have just sat down with a few friends around a table, taken out your laptop, and are absent-mindedly pulling an Ethernet cable over to you, telodynamically affecting a distant coffee cup?
July 21, 2010