Virial

1. n. A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, — first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.