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5 letters · 6 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originBorrowed from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon). Doublet of erg and work. In philosophy, the word is loaned in its capacity as a technical term in Aristotelianism, in English usage following Alexander Grant, The Ethics of Aristotle (1857). In classical thermodynamics, the term is coined as translating German Werk. Rudolf Clausius (1864) made a technical distinction between Werk and Arbeit, both…
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