fluidic, a.
(fluːˈɪdɪk)
[f. as fluidal a. + -ic. Cf. F. fluidique (sense 2).]
1. Of the nature of a fluid.
| 1883 Winchell World-life ii. ii. §6. 242 The..older fluidic condition..impresses more important results on the life-history of satellites. |
2. Spiritualism. Of or belonging to a supposed supersensible ‘double’ (of ‘fluid’ or ethereal consistence) possessed by every being.
| 1877 H. P. Blavatsky Isis Unveiled I. i. 12 The Astral Soul, or the inner, fluidic body. 1882 Mabel Collins Cobwebs II. 179 The fluidic atmosphere which passes from one human being to another. 1887 H. S. Olcott tr. A. D'Assier's Posth. Humanity iv. 103 Besides its exterior and organic form, the human body possesses an interior and fluidic form, moulded after the former. |
3. [Back-formation from next.] Designed or operating in accordance with the principles and techniques of fluidics; of or pertaining to fluidics.
| 1960 [see fluidics n. pl.]. 1965 Missiles & Rockets 8 Feb. 18/3 In the first fluidic circuits..a fluid stream of relatively high energy was directed across a cavity. 1965 Humphrey & Tarumoto Fluidics i. iii. 40/2 Fluidic systems often..have few if any moving parts. 1968 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 12/2 Common to all of the many different types of fluidic devices is the principle that a stream of fluid flowing through a small channel..can be deflected from its initial path when hit by a smaller control jet. 1968 Sci. Jrnl. Dec. 53/1 The fluidic system uses a flow of fluid instead of a flow of electrons (electric current). 1969 Nature 20 Dec. 1193/1 When the control flows are provided by a feedback from the efflux of the power jet, a fluidic oscillator is set up. |
So fluˈidiform a. [F. fluidiforme.]
| 1887 H. S. Olcott tr. A. D'Assier's Posth. Humanity ii. 68 The existence of a plexus of fluidiform capillaries connecting the phantom with the body from which it emanates. |