different between fatigue vs ergonomics

English

Etymology

From French fatigue, from fatiguer, from Latin fat?g?re (“to weary, tire, vex, harass”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??ti??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

fatigue (countable and uncountable, plural fatigues)

1. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
2. (often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
3. (engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
   • 2013, N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, page 399

     Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:fatigue

Derived terms

• fatigues (military work clothing)
• diversity fatigue
• donor fatigue
• fatigueless
• fatigue duty

Translations

Verb

fatigue (third-person singular simple present fatigues, present participle fatiguing, simple past and past participle fatigued)

1. (transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
2. (transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
   • 1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death, chapter 1

     The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.

3. (intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
4. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
5. (transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.

Related terms

• fatigable
• indefatigable

Translations

Further reading

• fatigue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fatigue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.ti?/

Noun

fatigue f (plural fatigues)

1. fatigue, weariness

Derived terms

• tomber de fatigue

Related terms

• fatigué
• fatiguer

Further reading

• “fatigue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Verb

fatigue

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
3. third-person singular imperative of fatigar

Spanish

Verb

fatigue

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fatigar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fatigar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fatigar.

English

Etymology

ergo- (prefix indicating work) +? -nomics (suffix indicating the rules of a discipline), probably modelled after Polish ergonomia (“ergonomics”) (used by Polish scientist Wojciech Jastrz?bowski (1799–1882) in an 1857 article), from Ancient Greek ????? (érgon, “work”) + ????? (nómos, “custom; law, ordinance”). The English word is widely regarded as having been introduced by British psychologist K. F. Hywel Murrell at a meeting at the Admiralty in London in July 1949, which led to the establishment of the Ergonomics Research Society (now The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors) on 17 September 1949.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????n?m?ks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????n?m?ks/
• Hyphenation: er?go?no?mics

Noun

ergonomics (uncountable)

1. The science of the design of equipment, especially so as to reduce operator fatigue, discomfort and injury. [from c. 1950.]
2. (economics, rare) Political economy.

Synonyms

• human factors (chiefly US)

Derived terms

• ergonomic, ergonomical
• ergonomically
• ergonomist

Translations

References

Further reading

• human factors and ergonomics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• microgeons