-ics, -tics [-ac after i]
(Greek: a suffix that forms nouns and is usually used to form names of arts and sciences)
Although stone-tool-dependent cultures exist even today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric societies that no longer exist.
2. The art of oblique sailing.
2. The theory or practice of promoting well-being and longevity, principally by means of a diet consisting chiefly of whole grains and beans.
2. A branch of economics dealing with the broad and general aspects of an economy; such as, the relationship between the income and investments of a country as a whole.
This is the field of economics that studies the behavior of the aggregate economy including economy-wide phenomena; such as, changes in unemployment, national income, rate of growth, gross domestic product, inflation, and price levels.
Macroeconomics is focused on the movement and trends in the economy as a whole, while in microeconomics the focus is placed on factors that affect the decisions made by firms and individuals.
The factors that are studied by macro and micro will often influence each other; for example, the current level of unemployment in the economy as a whole will affect the supply of workers which an oil company can hire from.
2. The art of giving birth; such as, clearness and conviction, to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
2. The study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols.
3. The systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically.
The etymology of mathematics.
"Mechanics deals with motion and with the reaction of physical systems with internal and external forces which produce movements."
"The field of mechanics is subdivided into statics and dynamics; depending on the types of systems and phenomena that are involved."
- Dynamics is usually subdivided into kinematics (motion without reference to force or mass) and kinetics (forces that cause motions of bodies).
- Statics deals with bodies at rest.
3. The procedure involved when something is done or used: "Jerry was receiving instructions regarding the mechanics of his musical instrument."
The metabolome represents the collection of all metabolites in a biological cell, tissue, organ, or organism, which are the end products of cellular processes.