[f. AERO- + DYNAMICS, i.e., the dynamics of aerial bodies. Cf. Fr. aérodynamique.] The branch of Pneumatics that treats of air and other gases in motion, and of their mechanical effects.
1837. Pop. Encycl., I. 45. Aerodynamics; a branch of aerology, or the higher mechanics, which treats of the powers and motion of elastic fluids.
1868. Chambers, Encycl., I. 56. One of the most important inquiries in Aerodynamics is the resistance offered to a body moving in air, or—which is the same thing—the pressure exerted by air in motion upon a body at rest.
