Saturday, 24 November 2012

tachometer=تاكومتر

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tachometer=تاكومتر
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
tachometer (n.)
1810, from Gk. Tachos/ταχύς-ταχύτητα "speed" + -meter.


-meter
word-forming element meaning "device or instrument for measuring; commonly -ometer, occasionally -imeter; from Fr. -mètre, from Gk. Metron/μέτρο (see meter (n.3)).


meter (n.1)
also metre, "poetic measure," O.E. meter "meter, versification," from L. metrum, from Gk. Metron/μέτρο "meter, a verse; that by which anything is measured; measure, length, size, limit, proportion," from PIE root *me- "measure" (see meter (n.2)). Possibly reborrowed early 14c. (after a 300-year gap in recorded use) from O.Fr. metre, with specific sense of "metrical scheme in verse," from L. metrum.


stochastic=الاستوكاستك


stochastic=الاستوكاستك
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
stochastic (adj.)
1660s, "pertaining to conjecture," from Gk. stokhastikos "able to guess, conjecturing," from stokhazesthai "guess," from stokhos "a guess, aim, target, mark," lit. "pointed stick set up for archers to shoot at" (see sting). The sense of "randomly determined" is first recorded 1934, from Ger. stochastik.

Cybernetics=السبرانية علم الضبط


Cybernetics=السبرانية علم الضبط
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
cybernetics (n.)
coined 1948 by U.S. mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) from Gk. kybernetes "steersman" (metaphorically "guide, governor") + -ics; perhaps based on 1830s Fr. cybernétique "the art of governing."


cybernetic (adj.)
1951, back formation from cybernetics. Gk. kybernetikos meant "good at steering."

Achilles heel=كعب أخيل


Achilles heel=كعب أخيل
Achilles
Greek hero of the Trojan War stories, son of Thetis and Peleus, his name is perhaps a compound of akhos "pain, grief" (see awe) + laos "the people, a people" (see lay (adj.)); or else it is from a pre-Greek language.


Achilles tendon
from Mod.L. tendo Achillis, first used by German surgeon Heister and so-called in reference to the one vulnerable spot of the great Greek hero Achilles, whose mother held him by the heel when she dipped him in the River Styx to render him invulnerable (though this story is not in Homer and not found before 1c. C.E.). Earlier Achilles' sinew, from Mod.L. chorda Achillis, coined 1693 by Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyden when dissecting his own amputated leg. Hence figurative use of heel of Achillies for "vulnerable spot" (1810).

herpes =هربس

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herpes =هربس
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
herpes (n.)
late 14c., "inflammatory, spreading skin condition" (used of shingles, gangrene, etc.), from L. herpes "a spreading skin eruption," from Gk. herpes/έρπης,      the name for the disease shingles, lit. "creeping," from herpein/έρπω-ερπειν(ερπετό)  "to creep" (cognate with L. serpere "to creep;" see serpent). The condition was not distinguished into specific diseases until early 19c.

P.S. In civil engineering we use the technical term   ερπυσμος/creep of  the concrete.