dyne

American  

[dahyn] / daɪn /

noun

Physics.

1. the standard centimeter-gram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second on a mass of one gram. dyn

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dyne British  

/ daɪn /

noun

1. the cgs unit of force; the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 centimetre per second per second to a mass of 1 gram. 1 dyne is equivalent to 10 ^-5 newton or 7.233 × 10 ^-5 poundal

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dyne Scientific  

/ dīn /

1. The unit of force in the centimeter-gram-second system, equal to the amount of force required to give a mass of one gram an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second.

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Etymology

Origin of dyne

1835–45; < French < Greek dýnamis force, power

Example Sentences

Bats Sir: Carrying the experiment one step further, I asked the bat how he managed to make a 120,000 cycle, 60 dyne noise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Therwith she lough, and seyde, `Go we dyne.'

From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey

As for his face—well, it brought vividly to mind the lines of Spenser— His rawbone cheekes, through penurie and pine, Were shronke into his jawes, as he did never dyne.

From From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by Bangs, John Kendrick

That lytle boye was the towne swyne-heard, And kept fayre Alyce swyne; Full oft he had seene Cloudesle in the wodde, And geven hym there to dyne.

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank

“There is another chambre for the Lords to dyne in, the lengthe is xiiij. yerds; the breadeth, vij. yerdes; and the deppeth iij. yerdes dim.”

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford