DYNE


Meaning of DYNE in English

[ dʌɪn ]

■ noun Physics a unit of force that, acting on a mass of one gram, increases its velocity by one centimetre per second every second along the direction in which it acts.

Origin

C19: from Fr., from Gk dunamis 'force, power'.

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