DYNE

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1892 · p. 29

n. Din. From Suva/uts, power. Fr., d. Ger., Dyn. A unit of force (sometimes represented by the symbol 5); the force which would propel a ma of the weight of 1 g'ram me with the velocity of 1 centimetre in a second. [" Nature," June 25. 1885, p. 187 (B).] DYSACOE (Lat.), [s. 631]