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zygology en · NOUN

Etymology

From zygo- + -logy.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The science of fastening things together.
    • Adhesion is only one branch of zygology, the science of joining things together — other branches include welding, riveting and all forms of mechanical joining. 1997, New Scientist, volume 155, numbers 2089-2097, page 52:
    • It is easy to forecast that there will be greater complexity and weight of business for all the professions from Architecture to Zygology. 1983, J. Keri Davies, Alistair B. Duncan, Willis Pickard, Access to higher education in Scotland: Robbins twenty years on:
    • Quite the opposite — they're very interested in finding out how these flies defy gravity and stick to the wall, because any insight into zygology can have very important practical applications. 2001, Dr. Joe Schwarcz, The Genie in the Bottle:
    • The technologies which underlie this basic structure are therefore, stress analysis, for the strength and rigidity of the parts, zygology for the fixed joints, and tribology for the components which experience relative motion 2003, Michael Neale, “Tribology in design”, in Tribology Series, volume 41: