ergonomics
The science of the design of equipment, especially so as to reduce operator fatigue,…The science of the design of equipment, especially so as to reduce operator fatigue, discomfort and injury.
» You should use a laptop stand for better ergonomics.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)The science of the design of equipment, especially so as to reduce operator fatigue, discomfort and injury.
Ergonomics is increasingly important in office-product design.
Ergonomie
эргоно́микаergonómika
ергоно́мікаerhonómika
(rare, uncountable)Political economy.
- the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments
Examples
2 sentencesYou should use a laptop stand for better ergonomics.
The study outlining the researcher’s findings has been published in the journal Ergonomics.
Translations
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Origin
From ergo- (prefix indicating work) + -nomics (suffix indicating the rules of a disciplineFrom ergo- (prefix indicating work) + -nomics (suffix indicating the rules of a discipline), probably modelled after Polish ergonomia (“ergonomics”) (used by Polish scientist Wojciech Jastrzębowski (1799–1882) in an 1857 article), from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + νόμος (nómos, “custom; law, ordinance”). The English word is widely regarded as having been introduced by British psychologist K. F. Hywel Murrell at a meeting at the Admiralty in London in July 1949, which led to the establishment of the Ergonomics Research Society (now The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors) on 17 September 1949.
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Synonyms
3 synonyms- the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments:biotechnologybioengineering
Word family
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