ergonic

adjective4

1. •
   Pertaining to energy, especially the expenditure or transfer of energy.

   • The intracellular surfaces of the electron-transferring proteins should, like the extracellular surfaces, develop ionic and ergonic products of electrode reactions. — 1990
2. •
   Pertaining to work or productive activity.

   • Psychic time is pathic and ergonic time, it is the working through of passion and action. — 2013
3. •
   Involving functional constraints; non-random due to functional considerations.

   • Another assumption is that the world is 'non-ergonic': there is no underlying stable structure to keep variation within certain limits, and the world changes in novel and unforeseeable ways. — 2010
4. •
   (old-fashioned) Pertaining to the functional categories of linguistic elements; syntactic.

   • Ergonic analysis is the reduction by means of symbols and formulae, complete sentences to their minimal parts. — 1954